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FIVE  SHORT  COURSES  OF  READ- 
ING IN  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 


WITH  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND  CRITICAL 
REFERENCES 


BY 
C.  T.  WINCHESTER 

Professor  of  English  Literature  in  VVesleyan  University 


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PREFACE 

These  courses  of  reading  were  prepared  originally  for 
college  students,  and  were  used  for  several  years  by  classes 
under  my  instruction.  It  is  thought  that,  as  now  printed, 
they  may  be  of  service  not  only  to  other  teachers  but  to 
reading  clubs,  and  to  any  readers  who  are  beginning  a 
systematic  study  of  our  literature. 

It  is  evident  that  this  little  manual  is  intended  as  a 
guide  to  the  general  reader  or  the  beginner,  and  not  for 
the  advanced  student  of  literature.  The  courses  are, 
as  they  are  named,  short.  Only  so  much  reading  has 
been  assigned  to  each  one  as  it  has  been  found  practica- 
ble for  a  college  student  to  do  thoroughly  in  connection 
with  an  elementary  study  of  literary  history  extending 
through  one  year.  Each  course  is,  however,  followed  by 
a  list  of  M  Additional  Reading  "  for  readers  who  have  time 
and  inclination  to  make  a  somewhat  more  thorough  study 
of  the  period  it  covers;  and  it  is  believed  that  the  five 
courses,  taken  together  with  the  supplementary  lists,  will 
represent  not  very  inadequately  the  nature  and  progress 
of  English  literature  from  the  beginning  of  the  Eliza- 
bethan period  to  the  present  day. 

I  have  confined  my  selections  to  belles  lettres  and  have 
made  no  attempt  to  represent  the  wealth  of  English  writ- 
ing in  history  or  politics,  philosophy  or  religion.  Excep- 
tion to  this  rule  is  made  only  in  the  cases  where  an  author, 

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iv  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

in  some  one  of  these  departments,  by  the  force  of  his  per- 
sonality or  by  the  power  and  charm  of  his  style,  has  given 
to  his  work  permanent  literary  quality.  -Even  the  narrow- 
est definition  of  literature  certainly  ought  not  to  exclude 
the  best  writing  of  Swift  and  Burke,  of  Jeremy  Taylor 
and  Cardinal  Newman.  In  the  fifth  course  all  selections 
from  fiction  have  been  omitted.  This,  not  because  fiction 
is  an  unimportant  part  of  the  literature  of  the  last  half 
century,  but  rather  because  the  reader  can  have  little  diffi- 
culty in  choosing  for  himself  the  best  books  of  the  best 
recent  novelists,  while  to  choose  among  the  host  of  second- 
best  is  not  the  purpose  of  this  guide. 

As  a  rule,  I  have  recommended  not  extracts  nor  quo- 
tations, but  entire  works.  In  some  cases,  however,  where 
a  book  or  poem  is  so  long  that  it  would  be  impracticable 
to  include  the  whole  of  it  in  courses  so  brief  as  these  must 
be,  I  have  ventured  to  name  a  part ;  but  only  when  such 
part  is  clearly  separable  from  the  rest  of  the  work  and 
has  some  distinct  unity  of  its  own. 

In  the  lists  of  "  Editions  Recommended  "  I  have  included 
only  such  editions  as  seem  to  have  some  permanent  value, 
—  to  be  worthy  a  place  not  only  in  the  classroom  but  also 
in  the  library. 

It  will  be  obvious  that  the  biographical  and  critical 
references  given  with  each  course  make  no  pretension  to 
bibliographical  completeness.  These  lists  aim  to  be  judi- 
cious rather  than  exhaustive.  No  effort  is  made  to  give  a 
full  series  of  biographical  data  for  any  author.  At  the 
head  of  each  list  is  usually  placed  one  brief,  but  recent 
and  accurate,  biography,  such  as  is  likely  to  prove  most 
serviceable  to  the  class  of  readers  for  whom  these  lists  are 


PREFACE  V 

intended ;  then  follows  the  standard  life  —  if  any  such 
there  be  —  and  after  that,  in  chronological  order,  such 
other  works  as  seem,  for  any  reason,  to  be  of  most  last- 
ing interest.  Similarly,  the  lists  of  critical  references  include 
only  such  writing  as  can  present  some  claim  to  independ- 
ent and  permanent  value  as  literature. 

No  references  have  been  given  to  periodical  literature. 
This  rule  does,  indeed,  exclude  a  few  critical  essays  of  the 
first  order  of  merit  that  have  not  yet  been  collected  into 
volumes,  but  only  a  few,  and  those  mostly  of  recent  date. 
Moreover,  detailed  references  to  periodical  literature  are 
hardly  necessary ;  all  readers  having  access  to  long  files 
of  periodicals  have  access  also  to  their  "  Poole." 


COURSES  OF  READING 


COURSE  I 

MARLOWE  •  GREENE  ■  SHAKESPEARE  ■ 
BACON •  MILTON 

Christopher  Marlowe.      1 564-1 593. 

The  Tragical  History  of  Doctor  Faustus. 
Robert  Greene.     is5o(?)-i592. 

Friar  Bacon  and  Friar  Bungay.  ^ 
William  Shakespeare.      1564-16 16. 

Henry  Fourth,  Parts  I,  II. 

As  You  Like  It.  v 

Hamlet/ 

Antony  and  Cleopatra. 

Winter's  Tale. v 

Sonnets,   Nos.   29,   30,  ^,   73,  98,  99,   no,   in, 
116,  146. 
Francis  Bacon.      1 561-1626.    v 

Essays,  Nos.  1,  2,  3,  8,  10,  n,  16,  19,  22,  27,  46,  50. 
John  Milton.     1608- 167 4. 

L'Allegro  and  II  Penseroso. 

Comus. 

Lycidas. 

Paradise  Lost,  Book  I. 

Samson  Agonistes. 

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2  'ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

Passages  to  be  memorized 

Marlowe.     Faustus,  Scene  XIII,  11.  91-100. 

Shakespeare.  As  You  Like  It,  Act  II,  Se.  1,  11.  1-18; 
Act  II,  Sc.  7,  Song  :  "  Blow,  blow  thou  winter  wind." 
Hamlet,   Act  I,    Sc.  3,   11.  58-80;    Act   III,   Sc.  1, 

11.  56-89,  150-161;  Act  V,  Sc.  1,  11.  173-189. 
Antony  and   Cleopatra,   Act  IV,  Sc.  14,  11.  1-22; 

Act  IV,  Sc.  15,  11.  73-91. 
Winter's  Tale,  Act  IV,  Sc.  4,  11.  79-146. 
Sonnets  30,  73. 

Milton.     L'Allegro,  11.  57-90. 

II  Penseroso,  11.  61-84,  155-166. 

Comus,  11.  453-463,  555~564>  890-900,  1018-1023. 

Lycidas,  11.  112-131. 

Paradise  Lost,  Book  I,  11.  589-612. 

Samson  Agonistes,  11.  665-704,  1 745-1 758. 


NOTES 

I.  EDITIONS  RECOMMENDED 

Marlowe.  Doctor  Faustus,  and  Greene's  Friar 
Bacon  and  Friar  Bungay.  Edited  by  A.  W. 
Ward.     [Clarendon  Press  Series.] 

Bacon,     i.  Essays,  with  Introduction  and  Notes  by    ' 

F.  G.  Selby.  ^^  /*^ 

2.  Essays.     Edited  by  W.  Aldis  Wright.-'* 

3.  Essays,  with  Introduction  and  Notes  by  Alfred  ' 

A.  West.     [Pitt  Press  Series.] 
Milton.      1 .   English  Poems.     Edited,  with  Life,  In-  ? 
troduction,  and  Notes,  by  R.  C.  Browne.     2  vols. 
[Clarendon  Press  Series.] 

2.  The  Shorter  Poems  of  John  Milton.     Edited  by 

Andrew  J.  George. 

3.  The  Cambridge  Milton  for  Schools.     Edited  by    /J^s^l-^ 

A.  W.  Verity. 

4.  Poetical  Works.     Edited,  with  Introduction,  by 

David  Masson.     [Globe  Edition.] 

5.  Poetical  Works.     Edited,  with  an  Introduction 

and  Notes,  by  David  Masson.     3  vols.    (This 
is  the  standard  edition.) 

II.  ADDITIONAL  READING 

1.  From  Authors  already  mentioned 
Shakespeare.  t 

The  plays  of  Shakespeare  named  above  are  selected 
as  each  representing  one  phase  of  his  work,  —  history, 


4  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

(English  and  Roman),  comedy,  tragedy,  and  romance. 
Read  in  chronological  order,  as  named,  they  may  also 
suggest  the  changes  in  Shakespeare's  themes  and  the 
development  of  his  genius.  There  is,  perhaps,  hardly 
need  of  direction  in  the  choice  of  further  reading  from 
Shakespeare ;  the  following  plays  may,  however,  be  men- 
tioned as  among  his  most  characteristic,  and  as  illustrating 
well  his  subjects  and  his  manner  at  different  periods  of 
his  life.  The  order  in  which  they  are  mentioned  is  the 
probable  order  of  composition  : 

A  Midsummer  Night's  Dream 

Romeo  and  Juliet 

Richard  II 

The  Merchant  of  Venice 

Twelfth  Night 

Julius  Caesar 

Othello 

Lear 

Macbeth 

Cymbeline 

The  Tempest 

2.  From  Contemporary  Authors 

DRAMA 

Ben  Jonson.     1 574-1637. 

Every  Man  in  His  Humour. 

The  Alchemist. 
Francis  Beaumont  and  John  Fletcher.     1586-1616,  1 576— 

1625. 

Philaster. 


COURSE  I  5 

JoJm  Webster. 

The  Duchess  of  Malfy. 
All  these  plays  except  the  first  may  be  found,  slightly 
expurgated  for  students'  use,  in  "  The  Best  Elizabethan 
Plays,"  edited  by  W.  R.  Thayer,  1890. 

POETRY 

Contemporary  with  Shakespeare 

Edmund  Spenser.     1 5 5 2 - 1 599. 

The  Faery  Queen :  Book  I,  with  the  Introductory 
Letter  to  Walter  Raleigh.  Edited  by  G.  W. 
Kitchin.     [Clarendon  Press  Series.] 

Ben  Jonson. 

Sad  Shepherd. 
Underwoods. 

Palgrave's  Golden  Treasury  of  English  Songs  and  Lyrics, 
Book  I. 

Lyrics  from  Elizabethan  Song  Books,  1889  ;  Lyrics  from 
Elizabethan  Romances,  1890;  Lyrics  from  Eliza- 
bethan Dramatists,  1893.     Edited  by  A.  H.  Bullen. 

A  Book  of  Elizabethan  Lyrics.  Edited  by  Felix  E. 
Schelling.     1895.    [Athenaeum  Press  Series.] 

Contemporary  with  Milton 

Robert  Herrick.     1591-1674. 

From  The  Hesperides,  the  following :  The  Argument 
of  his  Book,  All  Things  decay  and  die,  Delight 
in  Disorder,  The  Bag  of  the  Bee,  A  Country 
Life  —  to  his  Brother,  To  Virgins  to  make  much 
of  Time,  To  Primroses  filled  with  Morning  Dew, 


6  ENGLISH   LITERATURE 

To  Anthea  who  may  command  Him,  To  Daffo- 
dils, To  Blossoms,  His  Winding  Sheet,  Ode  to  Sir 
Clipsebie  Crew,  His  Prayer  to  Ben  Jonson,  The 
Night  Piece  to  Julia. 

George  Herbert.     1593-1632. 

The  Church  Porch,  Affliction,  Matins,  Sunday,  Virtue, 
Man,  Home,  Dialogue,  Peace,  Man's  Medley,  The 
Flower,  The  Elixir,  Charms  and  Knots. 

Andrew  Marvell.     1620- 167S. 

The  Bermudas,  To  his  Coy  Mistress,  An  Epitaph, 
The  Garden,  A  Drop  of  Dew,  Appleton  House, 
An  Elegy  upon  the  Late  Lord  Protector. 

A  Book  of  Seventeenth  Century  Lyrics.     Edited  by  Felix 
E.  Schelling.     1899.     [Athenaeum  Press  Series.] 

PROSE 

Contemporary  with  Shakespeare 

r     Philip  Sidney.      1554-1586. 

Defense  of  Poesy.  Edited  by  Albert  S.  Cook,  1890, 
or  edited  by  Evelyn  S.  Shuckburgh,  1890. 

John  Lyly.     15 53-1 601. 

Euphues,  or  the  Anatomie  of  Wit.  [Arber's  English 
Reprints.]      v  /  1 9  /  l& 

Contemporary  with  Milton 

Jeremy  Taylor.     1613-1667. 

The  Rule  and  Exercise  of  Holy  Dying,  .Chapter  I. 
Sermons :  On  the  Return  of  Prayers,  On  the  Fruits 
of  Sin. 


COURSE  I  7 

Sir  Thomas  Browne.     1605 -1682. 

Religio  Medici. 
Izaak  Walton.     1 593-1 683. 

The  Complete  Angler. 
John  Bufiyan.     1 628-1 688. 

The  Pilgrim's  Progress. 


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III.    SELECT  WORKS  OF  REFERENCE 

GENERAL  LITERARY  HISTORY  AND  CHARACTERISTICS 

George  Saintsbury.  History  of  Elizabethan  Literature. 
1887. 

Edmund  W.  Gosse.  Seventeenth  Century  Studies.  1883. 
The  Jacobean  Poets.  1894.  (Specially  valuable  for 
studies  of  the  minor  poets,  1603 -1660.) 

/  H.  B.  Masterman.  The  Age  of  Milton.  1897.  [Hand- 
books of  English  Literature.] 

//'  /  Courthope.  History  of  English  Poetry,  Vol.  II. 
1897.     Vol.  III.     1903. 

Ba?-rett  Wendell.  The  Temper  of  the  Seventeenth  Cen- 
tury in  English  Literature.     1904. 

Cambridge  History  of  English  Literature,  Vols.  Ill,  IV. 
1910. 

/.  J.  Jusserand.  Literary  History  of  the  English  People, 
Vol.  II.  From  the  Renaissance  to  the  Civil  War. 
1909. 

HISTORY  OF  THE  DRAMA 

F.  E.   Sehelling.     Elizabethan   Drama.     2  vols.     1558— 

1642. 
Cambridge  History  of  English   Literature,  Vols.  V,  VI. 

The  Drama  to  1642.     19 10. 


8  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

A.  W.  Ward.  History  of  the  British  Drama,  Vol.  I. 
New  and  revised  edition.     1899. 

J.  A.  Symonds.     Shakespeare's  Predecessors.     1884. 

J.  M.  Manly.  Specimens  of  the  Pre-Shaksperean  Drama, 
Vols.  I,  II.  1897.  [Athenaeum  Press  Series.]  (A 
third  volume,  containing  the  history  of  the  drama 
before  Shakespeare,  is  now  in  preparation.) 

C.  M.  Gayley.  Representative  English  Comedies,  from 
the  Beginnings  to  Shakespeare.     1903. 

Katherine  Lee  Bates.     The    English    Religious    Drama. 

1895. 
F.  T.  Or  dish.     Early  London  Theatres.     1894. 
Frederick  S.  Boas.     Shakspere    and    His    Predecessors. 

1896. 
Ashley  H.  Thorndike.     Tragedy.     1908. 

Briefer  accounts  may  be  found  in  the  Introductions  of 
the  editions  of  Shakespeare  by  Hudson,  White,  Knight, 
and  others. 

SHAKESPEARE 
1.  Biography,  and  Studies  of  his  Character 

/  O.  Halliwell-Phillipps.  Outlines  of  the  Life  of  Shake- 
speare. 2  vols.  Seventh  edition.  1887.  (Contains 
a  very  large  collection  of  facts  and  documents  illus- 
trating the  life  of  Shakespeare.) 

Edward  Dow  den.  A  Primer  of  Shakspere.  (The  best 
very  brief  handbook  of  Shakespeare  information.) 

Sidney  Lee.  A  Life  of  William  Shakespeare.  1898. 
(The  best  biography.) 


COURSE  I  9 

Karl  Elze.  Life  of  Shakespeare.  Translated  by  L.  Dora 
Schmitz.     1888. 

Ralph  Waldo  Emerson.  Shakespeare,  the  Poet.  [Repre- 
sentative Men.     1850.] 

Walter  Bagehot.  Shakespeare,  the  Man.  1853.  [Liter- 
ary Studies,  Vol.  I.] 

Goldwin  Smith.     Shakespeare,  the  Man.     1900. 

Hamilton  W.  Mabie.  William  Shakespeare,  Poet,  Drama- 
tist, and  Man.     190 1. 

A.  C.  Bradley.  Shakespeare,  the  Man.  [Oxford  Lectures 
on  Poetry.     1909.] 

H.  N.  MacCracken,  F.  E.  Peirce,  and  W.  H.  Durham , 
An  Introduction  to  Shakespeare.     19 10. 

2.  Criticism 

S.  T.  Coleridge.  Notes  and  Lectures  on  the  Plays  of 
Shakespeare.  1811-1812,  1818.  [Works,  Vol.  IV. 
1871.] 

Mrs.  A.  M.Jameson.  Characteristics  of  Women.  Second 
edition. 

J.  R.  Lowell.  Shakespeare  Once  More.  [Among  My 
Books,  Vol.  I.     1870.] 

H.  N.  Hudson.  Shakespeare's  Life,  Art,  and  Characters. 
2  vols.     1872. 

Edward  Dow  den.  Shakspere :  His  Mind  and  Art. 
1875- 

G.  G.  Gervinus.  Shakespeare  Commentaries.  Trans- 
lated by  F.  E.  Bunnett.      1875. 


IO  ENGLISH   LITERATURE 

F  Kreyssig.  Vorlesungen  iiber  Shakespeare.  2  vols. 
1877.  (Of  the  great  mass  of  German  criticism  on 
Shakespeare,  Kreyssig's  is  perhaps  the  best,  but  un- 
fortunately it  has  not  yet  been  translated.) 

H.  H.  Furness.  A  New  Variorum  Edition  of  Shake- 
speare. Edited  by  Horace  Howard  Furness.  Romeo 
and  Juliet,  Macbeth,  Hamlet,  Othello,  Merchant  of 
Venice,  Lear,  As  You  Like  It,  The  Tempest,  Winter's 
Tale,  Twelfth  Night,  A  Midsummer  Night's  Dream, 
Much  Ado  About  Nothing,  Antony  and  Cleopatra, 
Love's  Labour's  Lost,  Richard  the  Third.  1873- 
1908.  (This  admirable  edition,  besides  much  matter 
illustrating  the  text,  contains  a  copious  selection  of 
the  best  criticism,  English  and  foreign.  It  is,  for  the 
general  student,  the  best  storehouse  of  information 
upon  the  plays  thus  far  included  in  it.) 

R.  G.  Moulton.  Shakespeare  as  a  Dramatic  Artist. 
Second  edition.     1890. 

Bernhard  te?i  Brink.  Ten  Lectures  on  Shakespeare. 
Translated  by  Julia  Franklin.     1895. 

Georg  Bra?ides.  William  Shakespeare,  a  Critical  Study. 
Translated  by  George  Archer,  Mary  Morison,  and 
Diana  White.  1898.  (An  interesting  book,  showing 
wide,  if  not  always  very  accurate,  research;  but 
unfortunately  it  sometimes  substitutes  fancy  or  con- 
jecture for  more  sober  fact.) 

/.  Churton  Collins.     Studies  in  Shakespeare.     1904. 

A.C.Bradley.     Shakespearean  Tragedy.     1905. 

G.  P.  Baker.  The  Development  of  Shakespeare  as  a 
Dramatist.     1907. 


COURSE  I  II 


BACON 


R.  II :  Church.  Bacon.  1884.  [English  Men  of  Let- 
ters Series.] 

Encyclopaedia  Britannica.  Eleventh  edition.  Article, 
"  Bacon." 

E.  P.  Whipple.  Literature  of  the  Age  of  Elizabeth. 
1871. 

MILTON 

1.  Biography 

Mark  Pattison.  Milton.  1880.  [English  Men  of  Let- 
ters Series.] 

Richard  Garnett.     Life.     1890.     [Great  Writers  Series.] 

David  Masson.  The  Life  of  Milton  in  Connexion  with 
the  History  of  His  Time.  6  vols.  (This  is  the 
standard  life  of  Milton,  but  it  is  prolix  and  volumi- 
nous. Chapter  VI  of  Vol.  I  gives  a  valuable  esti- 
mate of  the  condition  of  English  literature  when 
Milton  began  his  work.) 

Thomas  De  Quincey.  Life  of  Milton.  1859.  [Works, 
Masson's  edition,  Vol.  IV.] 

R.  C.  Browne.  Introduction  to  the  Clarendon  Press 
Edition  of  Milton,  Vol.  I.     1870. 

Walter  Raleigh.     Milton.     1900. 

2.  Criticism 

Samuel  Johnson.     Milton.-     [Lives  of  the  Poets.     1781.] 

S.  T.  Coleridge.  Lectures  on  Shakespeare  and  Milton. 
18 1 2.     [Works,  Vol.  IV.     187 1.] 


12  ENGLISH   LITERATURE 

William  Hazlitt.  On  Shakespeare  and  Milton.  [Lectures 
on  the  Poets.     1818.] 

T.  B.  Macaulay.     Milton.     1825.     [Essays,  Vol.  I.] 

W.  S.  Landor.  Imaginary  Conversations,  Southey  and 
Landor.     1829.     (On  Milton's  diction  and  style.) 

R.W.Emerson.     On  Milton.     1838.     [Works,  Vol.  XII.] 

Thomas  De  Quincey .  On  Milton.  1839.  [Works,  Mas- 
son's  edition,  Vol.  X.] 

Walter  Bagehot.  Milton.  1859.  [Literary  Studies, 
Vol.  I.] 

Frederick  D.  Maurice.  Milton.  [The  Friendship  of 
Books,  and  other  essays.     1874.] 

/   R.   Lowell.     Milton.     [Among   My    Books,  Vol.  II. 

1876.] 

Edmond  Scherer.     Milton  and  Paradise  Lost.     [Essays 
on  English  Literature.    Translated  by  George  Saints- 
bury.     From    Etudes  sur  la  litterature  contempo- 
raine,  Tome  VI.     1882.] 
Matthew  Arnold.     1 .  A  French  Critic  on  Milton.     [Mixed 
Essays.     1880.] 
2.  Milton.     [Essays    in     Criticism.      Second     Series. 
1888.] 
A.    Birrell.     Milton.     [Obiter    Dicta.     Second    Series. 

1887.] 
William  P.  Trent.     John  Milton.     A  Study  of  His  Life 

and  Works.     1899. 
Edward  Dowden.      1 .  The  Idealism  of  Milton.     [Tran- 
scripts and  Studies.     1888.] 
2.  Milton  and  Civil  and  Ecclesiastical  Liberty.    [Puritan 
and  Anglican  Studies.     1901.] 


COURSE  I  13 

W.  J.  Conrthope.     Milton.     [Life  in  Poetry  and  Law  in 
Taste.     1 90 1.] 

/.  W.  Mackail.     Spenser  and  Milton.     [The  Springs  of 
Helicon.     1909.] 

SPENSER 

R.    W.    Church.     Spenser.     1879.     [English    Men    of 
Letters  Series.] 

William  Hazlitt.     On  Spenser.     [Lectures  on  the  Poets. 
1818.] 

G.  L.  Craik.     Spenser  and  His  Poetry.     3  vols.     187 1. 

Frederick  D.  Maurice.     Spenser's  Faery  Queen.     [The 
Friendship  of  Books,  and  other  essays.     1874.] 

/  R.  Lowell.     Spenser.     [Among   My   Books,  Vol.  II. 

1876.] 

Edward  Dowden.     Spenser,    the    Poet    and    Teacher. 
[Transcripts  and  Studies.     1888.] 

BUNYAN 

Edward    Venables.      Bunyan.     [Great    Writers    Series. 
1888.     Best  short  life.] 

/.  A.  Froude.     Bunyan.     1880.     [English  Men  of  Let- 
ters Series.] 

T.B.Macaulay.    John  Bunyan.     1830.     [Essays,  Vol.  I.] 

/  Browne.     John  Bunyan :   His  Life,  Times,  and  Work. 
1885. 

Edward  Dowden.     John  Bunyan.     [Puritan  and  Anglican 
Studies.     1 90  i.l 


14  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

HERBERT 

G.  H.  Palmer.  The  Life  and  Times  of  George  Her- 
bert. 3  vols.  1905.  (An  admirable  edition,  in  which 
the  works  are  arranged  in  the  probable  order  of 
their  composition,  and  interpreted  by  the  facts  of 
Herbert's  life.) 


ADDITIONAL  REFERENCES  I  5 


16  ADDITIONAL  REFERENCES 


ADDITIONAL  REFERENCES  I? 


IS  ADDITIONAL  REFERENCES 


ADDITIONAL  REFERENCES  19 


20  ADDITIONAL  REFERENCES 


COURSE  II 

DRYDEN  •  ADDISON  •  STEELE  •  SWIFT  ■  POPE 

Biographical  Introduction 

Johnson's  Lives  of  the  Poets  —  Dryden,  Swift,   Pope. 
Thackeray's  Lectures  on  the  English  Humourists. 

John  Dryden.     1631-1701. 
Absalom  and  Achitophel. 

Joseph  Addison.     1672-1719. 

1.  Spectator,  Nos.  1,  2,  5,  10,  12,  13,  26,  34,  35,  37, 

58,  59,  60,  81,  92,  98,  105,  106,  108,  no,  112, 
115,  117,  119,  122,  123,  124,  125,  126,  130,  131, 

!59>  *77i  269>  295>  329>  335>  3%3>  435>  445>  459> 
476,  481,  494,  517,  557.  (With  the  exception  of 
No.  26,  all  these  papers  are  to  be  found  in  Arnold's 
Selections  from  the  Spectator,  mentioned  below.) 

2.  Or,  The  selections  contained  in  either  Green's  or 

Deighton's  edition,  entire.  (See  below,  "  Editions 
Recommended.") 

Richard  Steele.     167 2 -17 29. 

1 .  Letters  to  his  wife ;  papers  from  the  Tatler,  Spec- 
tator, and  Guardian,  in  Carpenter's  edition.  (See 
below,  "  Editions  Recommended.") 


22  ENGLISH   LITERATURE 

2.  Or,  Selections  from  Steele's  Papers  in  the  Tatler, 
Spectator,  and  Guardian.  Edited  by  Austin 
Dobson.     The  following  essays:  Nos.  10,  17,  26, 

29,  31,  34,  35,  36,  37j  38,  41,  42,  43,  44,  45,  46,  5°, 
53,  54,  55,  61,  62,  63,  75,  76,  82,  86,  104,  122. 

Jonathan  Swift.     1667-1745. 

The  Tale  of  a  Tub  —  without  the  digressions. 

An   Argument    against   Abolishing   Christianity   in 

England. 
The  Journal  to  Stella,  I-VIL 

Alexander  Pope.     1 688-1 744. 
The  Rape  of  the  Lock. 
The  Epistle  to  Doctor  Arbuthnot. 

Passages  to  be  memorized 

Dry  den.     Absalom  and  Achitophel,  11.  1 50-181. 

Addison.     Spectator,  No.  26.     Reflections  in  Westminster 
Abbey,  the  last  paragraph. 

Pope.     The  Rape  of  the  Lock,  Canto  II,  11.  1-19. 
Epistle  to  Doctor  Arbuthnot,  11.  193-214. 

Thackeray.     Lecture  on  Addison,  last  paragraph. 

Lecture  on  Steele,  the  three  paragraphs  of  which 
the  first  begins,  "Our  third  humorist  comes  to 
speak  upon  the  same  subject." 


COURSE  II  23 


NOTES 

I.  EDITIONS  RECOMMENDED 

Dryden.  1.  Select  Poems.  Edited  by  W.  D. 
Christie.     [Clarendon  Press  Series.] 

2.  Poetical  Works.     Edited  by  W.   D.   Christie. 

[Globe  Edition.] 

3.  Works.     Edited    by    George    Saintsbury.     18 

vols.     (This  is  a  reissue  of  Walter  Scott's 
edition,  the  standard  edition.) 

Addison.  1 .  Selections  from  the  Writings  of  Addison. 
Edited,  with  Introduction  and  Notes,  by  Barrett 
Wendell  and  C.  N.  Greenough.  [Athenaeum 
Press  Series.] 

2.  Selections  from  Addison's  Papers  contributed 

to  the  Spectator.     Edited  by  Thomas  Arnold. 
[Clarendon  Press  Series.] 

3.  Selections    from    Addison.     Edited   by   J.    R. 

Green. 

4.  Selections  from  the  Spectator,  with  an  Intro- 

duction and  Notes  by  K.  Deighton. 

5.  The  Spectator.     Edited  by  G.  Gregory  Smith, 

with    an    Introduction    by    Austin    Dobson. 
8  vols. 

Steele.  1 .  Selections  from  the  Works  of  Sir  Richard 
Steele.  Edited,  with  Notes  and  an  Introduc- 
tion, by  George  R.  Carpenter.  [Athenaeum 
Press  Series.] 


24  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

2.  Selections    from    the  Tatler,    Spectator,    and 

Guardian.     Edited,    with    Introduction    and 

Notes,  by  Austin  Dobson.    [Clarendon  Press 

Series.] 

Swift,    i .  Swift.    Selections  from  his  Works.    Edited, 

with  Life,  Introduction,  and  Notes,  by  Henry 

Craik.     2  vols. 

2.  The  Tale  of   a  Tub,   Gulliver's  Travels,   and 

other  works.  Edited  by  Henry  Morley. 
2  vols.     [Carisbrooke  Library.] 

3.  Works,  with  Notes  and  a  Life  of  the  Author, 

by  Sir  Walter  Scott.  19  vols.  Second  edi- 
tion. (This  has  been,  for  half  a  century,  the 
standard  edition  and  was  reprinted,  without 
change,  1883 -1884.) 

4.  The  Prose  Works  of  Jonathan  Swift.     Edited 

by  Temple  Scott.  In  12  vols.  1897-1908. 
I.  A  Tale  of  a  Tub.  II.  Journal  to  Stella. 
(Edited  by  F.  Ryland.)  Ill,  IV. Writings 
on  Religion  and  the  Church.  V.  Eng- 
lish Political  Tracts.  VI.  The  Drapier's 
Letters.  VII.  Irish  Political  Tracts. 
VIII.  Gulliver's  Travels.  (Edited  by 
G.  R.  Dennis.)  IX.  Contributions  to 
the  Examiner,  Spectator,  etc.  X.  His- 
torical Writings.  XL  Literary  Essays. 
XII.  Bibliography,  Index,  etc. 

The     most     recent     and     complete 
edition. 
•    Pope.     1.  Poetical  Works.     Edited,  with  Notes  and 
a  Memoir,  by  A.  W.  Ward.    [Globe  Edition.] 


COURSE  II  25 

2.  Satires  and  Epistles.     Essay  on  Man.     Edited 

by    Mark    Pattison.     2    vols.     [Clarendon 
Press  Series.] 

3.  Works,  with  Introductions  and   Notes  by  W. 

Elwin  and  W.  J.  Courthope.     10  vols.    (This 
is  the  standard  edition.) 

4.  Complete  Poetical  Works.     Edited  by  H.  W. 

Boynton.     [Cambridge  Edition.] 

II.    ADDITIONAL  READING 

1.  From  Authors  already  mentioned 
Dry  den.     Religio  Laici. 

Ode  on  Saint  Cecilia's  Day. 
Ode  on  Mrs.  Anne  Killigrew. 
Essay  on  Dramatic  Poesy.     Edited,  with  Notes, 
by  Thomas  Arnold. 
Addison.     The  Play  of  Cato. 
Steele.     Letters    to    His    Wife.     [Correspondence, 

edited  by  J.  Nichols,  Vol.  I.] 
Swift.     The  Battle  of  the  Books. 
The  Bickerstaff  Papers. 
The  Examiner,  Nos.  15,  16,  19,  21,  27,  33,  35, 

39>  43- 
The  Drapier's  Letters,  I-IV. 
Gulliver's  Travels. 
Pope.     The  Essay  on  Criticism. 

Moral  Epistles,  III,  IV,—  Of  the  Use  of  Riches. 
Imitations   of   Horace,   First  Epistle  of  Book 

Second, — To  Augustus. 
The  Essay  on  Man. 
Letters  to  Swift. 


26  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

2.  From  Contemporary  Authors 

Samuel  Butler.     1 600-1 680. 
Hudibras,  Part  I. 

Daniel  Defoe.     1 663-1 731. 

The  Shortest  Way  with  Dissenters. 
The  Apparition  of  Mrs.  Veal. 
Robinson  Crusoe. 

Henry  St.  Joh n ,  Viscount  Bolingbroke.  1678-1751. 
The  Idea  of  a  Patriot  King. 

Matthew  Prior.     1664-1721. 

The  Secretary,  To  a  Child  of  Quality,  The 
Garland,  Cloe  Jealous,  Answer  to  Cloe 
Jealous,  A  Better  Answer,  To  a  Lady 
refusing  to  continue  a  Dispute. 

III.    SELECT  WORKS  OF  REFERENCE 

GENERAL  LITERARY  HISTORY  AND  CHARACTERISTICS 

{Bishop}  George  Berkeley.  Alciphron,  or  the  Minute 
Philosopher.  1732.  [Works,  edited  by  A.  C. 
Fraser,  Vol.  II.] 

T.  B.  Macaulay.  History  of  England,  Chapter  III. 
1848. 

Leslie  Stephen.  A  History  of  English  Thought  in 
the  Eighteenth  Century,  Chapter  XII.     1876. 

/  Stoughton.  Religion  in  England  in  the  Eighteenth 
Century.     2  vols.     1878. 

W.  E.  H.  Lecky.  History  of  England  in  the  Eight- 
eenth Century,  Chapters  IV,  IX.     1879. 


COURSE  II  27 

If.  Hettner.  Geschichte  der  Englischen  Literatur, 
1660-1770.     Vierte  Auflage.     1881. 

A.  Beljame.  Le  public  et  les  hommes  de  lettres 
en  Angleterre  aii  XVI I Ie  siecle.  1881.  (An 
excellent  work.) 

T.  S.  Perry.  English  Literature  in  the  Eighteenth 
Century.     1883. 

Frederic  Harrison.  A  Few  Words  about  the  Eight- 
eenth Century.  1883.  [The  Choice  of  Books, 
and  other  essays.] 

W.  J.  Courthope.  The  Conservatism  of  the  Eight- 
eenth Century.  [The  Liberal  Movement  in 
English  Literature.     1885.] 

Edmund  Gosse.     1.  From    Shakespeare    to    Pope. 
1885. 
2.  A  History  of  Eighteenth  Century  Literature, 
1 660- 1 780.     1889.     (The  best  sketch  of  the 
literature  of  this  period.) 

W.  C.  Sydney.  England  and  the  English  in  the 
Eighteenth  Century.     2  vols.     189 1. 

R.  Garnett.     The  Age  of  Dryden.     1895. 

Joh?i  Dennis.  The  Age  of  Pope.  1894.  [Hand- 
books of  English  Literature.] 

O.  Elton.  The  Augustan  Ages.  1899.  [Periods 
of  European  Literature.]  (Shows  the  relation 
of  English  to  other  European  literature,  1660- 
I745-) 

Leslie  Stephen.  English  Literature  and  Society  in 
the  Eighteenth  Century.     1904. 


28  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

DRYDEN 

G.  Saintsbury.     Dryden.     1881.     [English  Men  of 
Letters  Series.] 

Walter  Scott.     Life.     1806.     (Included    in    Saints- 
bury's  edition  of  the  Works.) 

William  Hazlitt.     On  Dryden  and  Pope.     [Lectures 
on  the  Poets.     18 18.] 

T.  B.  Macaulay.     Dryden.     1828.     [Essays,  Vol.  I.] 

W.  D.  Christie.     Biographical    Memoir.     [Prefixed 
to  Globe  Edition.     1870.] 

J.  R.  Lowell.     Dryden.     [Among  My  Books,  Vol.  I. 
1870.] 

ADDISON 

W.  J.  Courthope.     Addison.     1884.     [English  Men 
of  Letters  Series.] 

William  Hazlitt.     The  Periodical  Essayists.     [Eng- 
lish Comic  Writers.     1 8 1 9.] 

T.  B.  Macaulay.     Life  and  'Writings  of  Addison. 
1843.     [Essays,  Vol.  III.] 

STEELE 

Austin  Dobson.     Richard  Steele.     1886.     [English 
Worthies  Series.] 

George  A.  Aitken.     The    Life    of   Richard    Steele. 
2  vols.     1889.     (The  latest  and  fullest  life.) 

John  Forster.     Richard   Steele.     [Biographical    Es- 
says.    Third  edition,     i860.] 


COURSE  II  29 

SWIFT 

Leslie  Stephen.  Swift.  1882.  [English  Men  of 
Letters  Series.] 

John  Forster.  Life.  1876.  (This  work,  which 
promised  to  be  the  best  life  of  Swift,  was  left 
unfinished  by  Mr.  Forster  at  his  death.  It 
carries  the  record  of  Swift's  career  only  to 
the  year  1 7 1 1 .) 

Henry  Craik.  Life.  1882.  New  edition.  2  vols. 
1894.  (This  is  the  latest  and  fullest  life  of 
Swift.) 

W.  E.  H.  J^ecky.  Leaders  of  Public  Opinion  in 
Ireland,  —  Swift.     1880. 

G.  P.  Moriarty.  Dean  Swift  and  His  Writings. 
1893. 

/  Churton  Collins.  Jonathan  Swift :  A  Biographical 
and  Critical  Study.     1893. 

A.  Birrell.  Dean  Swift.  [Men,  Women,  and  Books. 
1894.] 

Herbert  Paul.  The  Prince  of  Journalists.  [Men 
and  Letters.     1901.] 

Alfred  Ainger.  Swift  —  His  Life  and  Genius.  [Lec- 
tures and  Essays,  Vol.  I.     1905.] 

Sophie  S.  Smith.  Dean  Swift.  19 10.  (Popular, 
chatty,  and,  in  the  main,  just ;  but  adds  little  to 
our  knowledge  of  Swift.) 


30  ENGLISH   LITERATURE 

POPE 

Leslie  Stephe?i.  Pope.  1880.  [English  Men  of 
Letters  Series.] 

W.  J.  Courthope.  Life.  1889.  (Forms  Vol.  V  of 
Elwin  and  Courthope's  edition  of  Pope's  Works 
referred  to  above.    The  best  life  of  Pope.) 

George  Paston  (pseudonym  for  Miss  E.  M.  Symonds.) 
Mr.  Pope,  His  Life  and  Times.  2  vols.  1909. 
(Popular  in  manner  and  not  always  accurate.) 

J.  R.  Spence.  Anecdotes  and  Observations  of  Books 
and  Men,  from  the  Conversation  of  Mr.  Pope. 
Second  edition.  1858.  (Valuable  contempo- 
rary memoranda.) 

William  Hazlitt.  On  Dryden  and  Pope.  [Lectures 
on  the  English  Poets.     18 18.] 

Thomas  De  Quincey.     1.  A  Life  of  Pope  for  the 

Encyclopaedia     Britannica.      Seventh     edition. 

1 82 7-1842.     [Works,    Masson's   edition,  Vol. 

IV.] 

2.  On    the    Poetry    of    Pope.     1848.     [Works, 

Masson's  edition,  Vol.  XL] 

/  Conington.  The  Poetry  of  Pope.  [Oxford  Es- 
says.    1858.] 

J.R.Lowell.     Pope.     [My  Study  Windows.     1873.] 

Leslie  Stephen.  Pope  as  a  Moralist:  Mr.  Elwin's 
edition  of  Pope.  [Hours  in  a  Library,  Vol.  I. 
1874.] 


COURSE  II  31 

C  A.  Sainte-Beuve.  Pope  as  a  Poet.  [English 
Portraits.  Translated  from  the  Causeries  du 
Lundi.     1875.] 

C.  W.  Dilke.  Pope's  Writings.  [Papers  of  a  Critic, 
Vol.I.     1875.] 

John  Dennis.  Alexander  Pope.  [Studies  in  Eng- 
lish Literature.     1876.] 

A.  Birrell.  Pope.  [Obiter  Dicta.  Second  Series. 
1887.] 

G.  K.  Chesterton.  Pope  and  the  Art  of  Satire. 
[Varied  Types.     191 1.] 

DEFOE 

William  Minto.  Defoe.  1879.  [English  Men  of 
Letters  Series.] 

William  Lee.  Life.  3  vols.  1869.  (Most  com- 
plete life.) 

John  Forster.  Defoe.  [Biographical  Essays.  Third 
edition,     i860.] 

Leslie  Stephen.  Defoe's  Novels.  [Hours  in  a 
Library,  Vol.  I.     1874.] 

John  Dennis.  Daniel  Defoe.  [Studies  in  English 
Literature.     1876.] 

Thomas  Wright.  Life.  1894.  (Mr.  Wright  is  a 
sturdy  defender  of  Defoe;  it  is  one  purpose 
of  his  book,  he  says,  to  show  that  Defoe  en- 
deavored "  to  be  at  all  times  the  man  of  God.") 


32  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 


BOLINGBROKE 


Walter  Bagehot.    Bolingbroke.    1863.    [Biographical 
Studies.] 

J.    Churton    Collins.      Bolingbroke :     A    Historical 
Study.     1886. 

W.   Sichel.     Bolingbroke   and    His  Time.     2    vols. 
1901-1902. 

PRIOR 

John  Dennis.     Matthew  Prior.     [Studies  in  English 
Literature.     1876.] 

Austin  Dobson.     Matthew  Prior.     [Eighteenth  Cen- 
tury Vignettes.     Third  Series.     1896.] 


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34  ADDITIONAL  REFERENCES 


ADDITIONAL  REFERENCES  35 


36  ADDITIONAL  REFERENCES 


ADDITIONAL  REFERENCES  37 


38  ADDITIONAL  REFERENCES 


COURSE  III 

GRAY  •  GOLDSMITH  •  JOHNSON  ■  BURKE  • 
COWPER  •  BURNS 

Biographical  Introduction 

Leslie  Stephen's  Life  of  Johnson. 
Dobson's  Life  of  Goldsmith. 
Morley's  Life  of  Burke. 

Thomas  Gray.     1 7 1 6- 1 7 7 1 . 

Elegy  Written  in  a  Country  Church- Yard. 

Ode  on  a  Distant  Prospect  of  Eton  College. 
Oliver  Goldsmith .     1728-1774. 

The  Deserted  Village. 

Retaliation. 

The  Vicar  of  Wakefield/ 
Samuel  Johnson.     17 09 -1785. 

The  Vanity  of  Human  Wishes. 

Rasselas. 
Edmund  Burke.     1729-1797. 

Speech  on  American  Taxation,  April  19,  1774. 

Speech  on  Conciliation  with  America,  March  22,1775. 

Reflections  on  the  Revolution  in  France  —  the  first 
half,  to  the  close  of  the  defense  of  the  Established 
Church  in  England. 

Letter  to  a  Noble  Lord  on  His  Pension. 
39 


40  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

William  Cowper.     1 731-1800. 

Lines  to  His  Mother's  Picture. 

To  Mary. 

The  Task,  —  Book  I,  The  Sofa. 
Robert  Burns.     1759-1796. 

The  Twa  Dogs. 

The  Farmer's  Address  to  His  Auld  Mare,  Maggie. 

Death  and  Dr.  Hornbook. 

Address  to  the  Deil. 

Epistle  to  Davie. 

The  Cotter's  Saturday  Night. 

To  a  Mouse. 

To  a  Louse  on  a  Lady's  Bonnet. 

To  a  Mountain  Daisy. 

Tarn  o'  Shanter. 

Songs :  The  Lass  o'  Ballochmyle,  Duncan  Gray, 
Contented  wi'  Little,  Tarn  Glen,  Of  a'  the  Airts 
the  Wind  Can  Blaw,  The  Banks  o'  Doon,  O  Wert 
Thou  in  the  Cauld  Blast,  Mary  Morison,  Ae  Fond 
Kiss  and  then  We  Sever,  Highland  Mary,  To  Mary 
in  Heaven,  For  a'  That  an'  a'  That. 

Passages  to  be  memorized 
Gray.     Elegy  in  a  Country  Church- Yard,  stanzas  1-9,  14. 
Ode  on  a  Distant  Prospect  of  Eton  College,  stanzas 
2,  10. 
Goldsmith.     The  Deserted  Village,  11.  1-14,  140-192. 
Burke.     Speech  on  Conciliation  with  America,  paragraph 
beginning,  M  Sir,  I  think  you  must  perceive  that  I 
am  resolved  this  day  to  have  nothing  at  all  to  do 
with  the  question  of  the  right  of  taxation." 


COURSE  III  41 

Reflections  on  the  Revolution  in  France,  paragraph 

describing  Marie  Antoinette. 
Letter  to  a  Noble  Lord,  paragraph  beginning,  "  Such 

are  their  ideas,  such  their  religion,  and  such  their 

law." 
Cowper.     To  Mary. 

The  Task,  Book  I,  11.  154-180. 
Burns.     The  last  stanza  of  the  Lines  to  a  Mouse,  and 
To  a  Louse. 

Epistle  to  Davie,  stanza  5. 
The  Cotter's  Saturday  Night,  stanzas  3,  12. 
Highland  Mary. 
For  a'  That  an'  a'  That. 


42  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 


NOTES 

I.    EDITIONS  RECOMMENDED 

Gray.     i.  Selections  from   the   Poetry  and   Prose. 

Edited,   with   an   Introduction    and   Notes,   by 

William  Lyon  Phelps.  [Athenaeum  Press  Series.] 

2.  Works  in  Prose  and  Verse,     Edited  by  Edmund 

Gosse.     4  vols.     (The  best  complete  edition.) 

Goldsmith,     i.  Selected  Poems.     Edited,  with  Notes, 

by  Austin  Dobson.     [Clarendon  Press  Series.] 

2.  Select  Poems.     Edited  by  W.  J.  Rolfe. 

3.  The  Vicar  of  Wakefield.     Edited,  with  Intro- 

duction   and    Notes,    by    Mary  A.   Jordan. 
[Longman's  English  Classics.] 

4.  The  Vicar  of  Wakefield.     Plays   and   Poems. 

With    an    Introduction    by    Henry    Morley. 
[Morley's  Universal  Library.] 

5.  The  Miscellaneous  Works  of  Oliver  Goldsmith, 

with  Biographical  Essay  by  Professor  Masson. 
[Globe  Edition.] 

6.  Works.     Containing  pieces  hitherto  uncollected, 

and  a  Life  of  the  Author.     With  Notes,  from 

various  sources,  by  J.  W.  M.  Gibbs.     5  vols. 

[Bohn's  Standard  Library.]     (The  latest  and 

most  complete  edition.) 

Johnson.    1.  Rasselas.    Edited,  with  Introduction  and 

Notes,  by  G.  B.  Hill.    [Clarendon  Press  Series.] 

2.  Rasselas,  with  Introduction  and  Notes  by  Oliver 

Farrar  Emerson. 


COURSE  III  43 

3.  Vanity  of  Human  Wishes.     Edited,  with  Notes, 

by  E.  J,  Payne.     [Clarendon  Press  Series.] 

4.  The  Works  of  Samuel  Johnson.     Oxford,  1823- 

1825.  11  vols.  [Oxford  Classic  Edition  — 
the  standard  edition.] 
Burke.  1.  Burke.  Select  Works.  With  Intro- 
duction and  Notes  by  E.  J.  Payne.  Vol.  I, 
Thoughts  on  the  Present  Discontents,  The 
Two  Speeches  on  America.  Vol.  II,  Reflec- 
tions on  the  Revolution  in  France.  Vol.  Ill, 
Letters  on  a  Regicide  Peace.  [Clarendon 
Press  Series.] 

2.  Speech  on  Conciliation  with  America.     Edited, 

with  Notes  and  an  Introduction,  by  Ham- 
mond Lamont.     [Athenaeum  Press  Series.] 

3.  Speeches  on  the  American  War,  and  Letter  to 

the  Sheriffs  of  Bristol,  with  Introduction  and 
Notes  by  A.  J.  George. 

4.  Complete  Works.     8  vols.     [Bohn's  Standard 

Library.] 
Cowper.     1.  Poetical    Works.     Edited    by   William 
Benham.     [Globe  Edition.] 

2.  Selections  from  the  Poetical  Works,  with  Intro- 

duction and  Notes  by  James  O.  Murray. 
[Athenaeum  Press  Series.] 

3.  Select  Works.     Edited,  with  Introductions  and 

Notes,  by  H.  T.  Griffith.  Vol.  I,  Didactic 
Poems  of  1 782,  Select  Minor  Pieces.  Vol.  II, 
The  Task,  Tirocinium,  Minor  Poems.  [Clar- 
endon Press  Series.] 

4.  Letters.     Edited  by  William  Benham. 


44  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

Burns,  i.  Complete  Poetical  Works.  [Cambridge 
Edition.]  (Perhaps  the  most  convenient  edition 
of  the  poetry.  It  is  based  upon  the  Centenary 
Edition,  mentioned  next,  and  contains  Mr. 
Henley's  Essay,  Indexes,  Glossary,  and  many 
notes  from  that  edition.) 

2.  The  Centenary  Burns.    Edited  by  W.  R.  Henley 

and  T.  F.  Henderson.  4  vols.  (The  latest  and 
perhaps  the  definitive  edition,  containing  much 
matter  not  included  in  any  previous  one.  The 
Essay  by  Mr.  Henley  is  the  most  important 
study  of  Burns  in  the  last  thirty  years,  —  care- 
ful, candid,  very  unsentimental,  and,  in  the 
opinion  of  many  readers,  very  unsympathetic.) 

3.  Complete  Works.     Edited  by  Alexander  Smith. 

[Globe  Edition.]  (Convenient  as  containing  in 
compact  form  not  only  the  Poems  but  the  Let- 
ters. Unfortunately  the  poems  are  not  arranged 
in  chronological  order,  and  most  are  not  dated.) 

4.  Selections  from  the  Poems.     Edited,  with  Intro- 

duction, Notes,  and  a  Vocabulary,  by  John  G. 
Dow.     [Athenaeum  Press  Series.] 

5.  Life  and  Works.     Edited  by  Robert  Chambers. 

4  vols.  Revised  by  William  Wallace.  1896. 
(In  Chambers's  edition  the  poems  are  set  in 
their  proper  order  in  connection  with  a  Life 
of  the  poet;  Mr.  Wallace  has  revised  this 
Life  in  accordance  with  more  recent  study.) 

6.  The  Complete  Works.    Edited,  with  a  Summary 

of  Burns's  Career  and  Genius,  by  William 
Scott  Douglas.     6  vols. 


COURSE  III  45 

II.  ADDITIONAL  READING 

i.  From  Authors  already  mentioned 

Goldsmith.     She  Stoops  to  Conquer. 

The  Citizen  of  the  World,  Letters:  i,  2,  4,  13, 
21,  41,  51,  92,  100,  117. 

Essays  :  On  the  Use  of  Language,  Beau  Tibbs, 
On  the  English  Clergy  and  Popular  Preachers, 
A  Reverie  at  the  Boar's  Head  Tavern,  Ad- 
ventures of  a  Strolling  Player. 

Johnson.     Taxation    No   Tyranny.     (This    may    be 

considered  as  an  answer  to  Burke's  Speech  on 

Conciliation  with  America.) 

Review  of  a  Free  Inquiry  (by  Soame  Jenyns) 
into  the  Nature  and  Origin  of  Evil.  (This 
is,  perhaps,  Johnson's  most  vigorous  and 
characteristic  paper.) 

The  Life  of  Savage. 

Letter  to  Lord  Chesterfield,  February,  1755. 

Burke.     Thoughts  on  the   Causes   of  the  Present 
Discontents.     1770. 

Letter  to  the  Sheriffs  of  Bristol.     1777. 
Speech  before  the  Bristol  Election.     1780. 
Reflections   on   the   Revolution   in    France  — 

entire.     1790. 
Appeal  from  the  New  to  the  Old  Whigs.     1 79 1 . 

Cowper.   The  Task  —  Book  IV,  The  Winter  Evening. 
Selections   from    Cowper's  Letters,   especially 
those   to  Joseph   Hill,  William  Unwin,    and 
Ladv  Hesketh. 


46  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

Bums.     The   Holy   Fair,  The   Brigs-  of  Ayr,  The 
Vision,  The  Unco  Guid,  Halloween,  The  Jolly 
Beggars,  Dedication  to  Gavin  Hamilton,  The 
Kirk's  Alarm,  To  the  Guidwife  of  Wauchope 
House,    Epistles    to   John  Lapraik.     (Of   the 
songs,  nearly  all  have  some  excellence.) 
Selections  from  Burns's  Letters,  especially  those 
to  Mrs.  Dunlop  and  to  Miss  Margaret  Chal- 
mers. The  correspondence  with  Mrs.  M'Lehose 
("  Clarinda  ")  illustrates  an  important  but  not 
very  creditable  episode  in  Burns's  life. 

2.  From  Contemporary  Authors 

POETRY 

James  Thomson.     1 700-1 748. 

The  Seasons. 
William  Collins.     1721-1756. 

Ode  written  in  1746. 

Ode  to  Evening. 

The  Passions. 

Dirge  in  Cymbeline. 

PROSE— THE  RISE  OF  THE  NOVEL 

Samuel  Richardson.     1 689-1761. 

Pamela ;  or,  Virtue  Rewarded. 
Henry  Fielding.     1707-175 4. 

Tom  Jones. 
Laurence  Sterne.     1713-1768. 

Tristam  Shandy. 
Frances  Burney  {Madame  UArblay).     1752 -1840. 

Evelina. 


COURSE  III  47 

III.    SELECT  WORKS  OF  REFERENCE 

GENERAL  LITERARY  HISTORY  AND  CHARACTERISTICS 

See  the  list  of  works  given  under  Course  II.  Addi- 
tional illustrations  of  the  life  of  this  period,  especially  the 
later  portion  of  it,  may  be  found  in  the  following  works  : 

James  Boswell.     Life  of  Samuel  Johnson.     (See  below.) 
Madame    UArblay    {Frances    Burney).     i.  Diary    and 

Letters.     7  vols.     1842 -18 46. 
2.  Early  Journals.     2  vols.     1889. 
Horace  Walpole.     Letters.     Edited  by  Peter  Cunningham. 

9  vols.     Revised  edition.     1891. 

W.  M.  Thackeray.    Lectures  on  tl;e  Four  Georges.    1 86 1 . 

W.  E.  H  Lecky.  History  of  England  in  the  Eighteenth 
Century,  Chapter  XXIII.     1887. 

Henry  A.  Beers.  A  History  of  English  Romanticism  in 
the  Eighteenth  Century.     1899. 

THE  RISE  OF  THE  NOVEL 

David  Mdsson.    British  Novelists  and  Their  Styles.    1859. 

William  Forsyth.  Novels  and  Novelists  of  the  Eighteenth 
Century.     187 1. 

B.Tuckerman.    A  History  of  English  Prose  Fiction.  1882. 

J.  J.  Jusserand.  The  English  Novel  in  the  Time  of  Shake- 
speare. 1890.  '  (For  the  Origins  of  English  Prose 
Fiction.) 

Walter  Raleigh.  The  English  Novel ;  a  Short  Sketch  of 
Its  History  from  the  Earliest  Times  to  the  Appear- 
ance of  Waverley.     1894. 


48  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

Wilbur  L.  Cross.     The  Development  of  the  English  Novel. 
1899.     (Tne  best  history  of  the  English  novel.) 

F  H.  Stoddard.  The  Evolution  of  the  English  Novel. 
1900. 

GRAY 

Edmund  Gosse.  Life.  New  edition.  1889.  [English 
Men  of  Letters  Series.] 

Matthew  Arnold.  Gray.  [Essays  in  Criticism.  Second 
Series.     1888.] 

D.  C.  Tovey.     Gray  and  His  Friends.     1890. 

/.  R.  Lowell.     Gray.     [Latest  Literary  Essays.     1892.] 

GOLDSMITH 

Austin  Dobson.  Life.  1888.  [Great  Writers  Series.] 
(Best  brief  life.) 

John  Forster.  Life  and  Times  of  Oliver  Goldsmith. 
2  vols.     Fifth  edition.     187 1.     (The  standard  life.) 

Thomas  De  Quincey.  Goldsmith.  1848.  [Works,  Mas- 
son's  edition,  Vol.  IV.]  (A  review  of  the  first  edition 
of  Forster's  Life,  and  mostly  concerned  with  the  con- 
dition of  society  in  Goldsmith's  day.) 

Washington  Irving.     Life.     1849. 

T.  B.  Macaulay.  Goldsmith.  1856.  [Works,  Vol.  IV.] 
(Written  for  the  Encyclopaedia  Britannica,  and  re- 
tained in  later  editions.) 

William  Black.     Goldsmith.     1878.     [English    Men   of 

Letters  Series.] 
F  Frankfort  Moore.    The  Life  of  Oliver  Goldsmith.   1 9 1 1 . 


COURSE  III  49 

JOHNSON 

Leslie  Stephen.  Johnson.  1878.  [English  Men  of  Letters 
Series.]     (The  best  brief  sketch  of  Johnson's  life.) 

James  Boswell.  Life  of  Samuel  Johnson.  Edited  by 
George  Birkbeck  Hill.  6  vols.  1887.  (This  is  the 
latest  and  much  the  best  edition  of  Boswell,  —  the 
best  biography  in  the  language,  and  quite  indispen- 
sable to  any  student  of  eighteenth-century  literature.) 

W.  S.  Landor.  Imaginary  Conversations  between  Samuel 
Johnson  and  John  Home  Tooke.  1829.  [Imaginary 
Conversations,  Vol.  III.] 

T.  B.  Macaulay.     1.  Samuel  Johnson.     1831.     [Essays, 

Vol.  I.]     (A  review  of  Croker's  edition  of  Boswell.) 

2.  Life  of  Johnson.    1856.    [Works,  Vol.  IV.]    (Written 

for  the  Encyclopaedia  Britannica,  and  retained  in 

the  ninth  edition.) 

Thomas  Carlyle.  Samuel  Johnson.  1832.  [Critical  and 
Miscellaneous  Essays.] 

G.  B.  Hill.  Dr.  Johnson,  His  Friends,  and  His  Critics. 
1878. 

Leslie  Stephen.     1.  Dr.  Johnson's  Writings.     [Hours  in  a 
Library.     Second  Series.     1881.] 
2.  Johnsoniana.     [Studies  of  a  Biographer.     1899.] 

F.Grant.    Life  of  Johnson.    1887.    [Great  Writers  Series.] 

A.  Birrell.  Dr.  Johnson.  [Obiter  Dicta.  Second  Series. 
1887.]  A  Second  Essay.  [Men,  Women,  and  Books. 
1894.] 

Johnson  Club  Papers.     By  various  hands.     1899. 

Walter  Raleigh.  Six  Essays  on  Johnson.  19 10.  (Full 
of  fresh  suggestion  on  a  much-bewritten  theme.) 


SO  ENGLISH   LITERATURE 

BURKE 

John  Morley.    i .  Edmund   Burke ;    a   Historical    Study. 
1867. 
2.  Edmund  Burke.   1888.  (Revised  and  abridged  from 
the  earlier  book.   The  best  brief  study  of  Burke.) 

F.  D.  Maurice.     Edmund   Burke.     [The  Friendship  of 

Books.     1874.] 

A.  Birrell.     Edmund    Burke.     [Obiter    Dicta.      Second 

Series.     1887.] 
Woodrow  Wilson.     The  Interpreter  of  English  Liberty. 
[Mere  Literature.     1896.] 

The  events  that  called  out  those  writings  of  Burke 
assigned  in  this  course  may  be  briefly  studied  in  the  fol- 
lowing works : 

1.  For  the  American  War 

/  B.  Green.     History  of  the  English  People,  Book  IX, 

Chapter  II. 
W.  E.  H.  Lecky.     History  of  England  in  the  Eighteenth 

Century,  Chapters  XII,  XIV.     1882. 
John  Fiske.     The  American  Revolution.     2  vols.     1891. 
W.  M.  Sloane.  The  French  War  and  the  Revolution.   1 893. 

G.  O.Trevelyan.    The  American  Revolution, Vol.  I.    1899. 

2.  For  the  French  Revolution 

B.  M.  Gardiner.     The  French  Revolution.     [Epochs  of 

History  Series.]     (For  a  brief  outline  of  the  history.) 
James  Mackintosh.     Vindiciae  Gallicae.     1791.     (This  is 
the  ablest  contemporary  rejoinder  to  Burke's  Reflec- 
tions on  the  Revolution.) 


COURSE  III  51 

F.  A.  Mignet.     History  of  the  Revolution.     1824. 
A.  de  Tocqueville.     The  Ancient  Re'gime  and  the  Revo- 
lution.    1856. 
H.  T.  Bicckle.     History  of  Civilization,  Vol.  I,  Chapters 

XII-XIV.     1856. 
C.  K.  Adams.     Democracy   and    Monarchy    in   France, 

Chapters  MIL     1875. 
H.  Morse  Stephens.     1 .  History  of  the  French  Revolution, 

Vol.  I.     1886.     (A  careful  study  of  the  early  phases 

of  the  Revolution.) 
2.  Europe,  1789-18 15.     [Periods  of  European  History 
Series.     Period  VII.     1893.] 
Shailer  Mathews.     The  French  Revolution.     A  Study. 

1901. 
The  Cambridge  Modern  History,  Vol.  VIII,  Chapters 

I-VI  and  XXV. 

COWPER 

W.  Benham.  Memoir.  (Prefixed  to  the  Globe  Edition 
of  Cowper's  Poems.  1879.  A  very  good  sketch 
of  Cowper's  life.) 

Robert  Soicthey.     Life  of  Cowper.     3  vols.     1835. 

Walter  Bagehot.  William  Cowper.  1855.  [Literary 
Studies,  Vol.  I.] 

C.  A.  Sainte-Beuve.  Cowper.  [English  Portraits.  Trans- 
lations from  the  Causeries  du  Lundi.     1875.] 

Stopford  A.  Brooke.  Theology  in  the  English  Poets  — 
Cowper.     1875. 

Leslie  Stephen.  Cowper  and  Rousseau.  [Hours  in  a 
Library.     Third  Series.     1879.] 


52  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

Goldwin   Smith.      Cowper.      1880.      [English    Men  of 

Letters  Series.] 
Mrs.  [M.  0.]  Oliphant.     Literary  History  of   England, 

Vol.  I.     1882. 
G.   E.   Woodberry.      Three    Men    of    Piety  —  Bunyan, 

Cowper,  Channing.     [Studies  in  Letters  and  Life. 

1890.] 
T.  Wright.     Life.     1892. 
Alfred  Ainger.      Some  Leaders  of  the  Poetic  Revival, 

1 760-1820.      Cowper  and   Burns.     [Lectures  and 

Essays,  Vol.  I.     1905.] 
Paul  Elmer  More.      The   Correspondence  of  Cowper. 

[Shelburne  Essays.     Third  Series.     1905.] 

BURNS 

/.  C.  Shairp.     Burns.     1879.     [English  Men  of  Letters 
Series.] 

/  S.  Blackie.     Life.     1888.     [Great  Writers  Series.] 

William  Hazlitt.     On  Burns.     [Lectures  on  the  English 
Poets.     1818.] 

Thomas   Carlyle.     1.  Burns.     1828.     [Critical  and  Mis- 
cellaneous Essays.] 
2.  Burns.      The    Hero   as    Man   of    Letters.      1840. 
[Heroes  and  Hero-Worship.] 

R.Chambers.     Life  [and  Works].    4  vols.    185 1.    (Same 
work  mentioned  above,  p.  44.) 

Charles  Kingsley.    Burns  and  His  School.    185 1.   [Works, 
Vol.  XX.] 

John  Wilson.     Genius  and  Character  of  Burns.     [Works, 
Vol.  VII.     1857.] 


COURSE  in  53 

/  G.  Lockhart.      Life.      Enlarged   edition.      Edited   by 

W.  S.  Douglas.     1882. 
/  C.  Shairp.      Scottish   Song  and   Burns.     [Aspects  of 

Poetry.     1882.] 
Mrs.  \M.  O.]  Oliphant.     Literary   History  of    England, 

Vol.  I.     1882. 
A.Lang.    To  Burns.     [Letters  to  Dead  Authors.    1886.] 
R.  L.  Stevenson.       Some    Aspects    of    Robert    Burns. 

[Familiar  Studies  of  Men  and  Books.     1887.] 
Ji.  Angellier.      Robert   Burns.      La  vie  et  les   ceuvres. 

2  vols.     1893.     (This,  one  of  the  best  books  on  the 

life  and  work  of  Burns,  unfortunately  is  not  yet  issued 

in  translation.) 
IV.  Wallace.    Correspondence  of  Burns  and  Mrs.  Dunlop. 

With  elucidations.     2  vols.     1898. 
W.  E.  Henley.     Life,  Genius,  Achievement.     (Essay  in 

the  Centenary  Edition,  1899,  mentioned  above,  p.  44.) 


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COURSE  IV 

WORDSWORTH  •  COLERIDGE  •  DE  QUINCEY  ■ 
LAMB  •  BYRON  •  SHELLEY  ■  KEATS 

William  Wordsworth.     1770-1850. 

1.  From  the  volume  of  Selections  edited  by  Dowden 

(Athenaeum  Press  Series),  the  following :  All  poems 
bearing  the  dates  1797,  1798;  of  those  bearing 
date  1800  —  "There  is  an  eminence,"  Michael; 
of  1802  — To  the  Cuckoo,  "  My  heart  leaps  up," 
Resolution  and  Independence,  In  Thomson's 
Castle  of  Indolence,  A  Farewell,  To  H.  C,  To  the 
Daisy;  of  1803 — The  Green  Linnet,  Yew  Trees, 
At  the  Grave  of  Burns,  To  a  Highland  Girl, 
Stepping  Westward,  The  Solitary  Reaper,  Yarrow 
Unvisited;  of  1804  —  "She  was  a  phantom  of 
delight,"  M I  wandered  lonely  as  a  cloud " ;  of 
1805  —  Ode  to  Duty/To  a  Skylark,  Peele  Castle  ; 
of  1806 — The  Happy  Warrior,  The  Mountain 
Echo,  Personal  Talk,  M  Loud  is  the  vale,"  Ode  on 
Intimations  of  Immortality.  Of  the  Sonnets : 
London  — 1802,  On  Westminster  Bridge,  "It  is 
a  beauteous  evening,"  "  The  world  is  too  much 
with  us,"  After-Thought. 

2 .  Or,  From  the  volume  of  Selections  chosen  and  edited 

by  Matthew  Arnold,  the  following:  The  Reverie 
of  Poor  Susan,  Song  at  the  Feast  of  Brougham 
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COURSE  IV  6l 

Castle,  The  Leech  Gatherer,  The  Brothers,  Michael, 
all  the  "  Lyrical  Poems,"  Laodamia,  Character  of 
the  Happy  Warrior,  Ode  to  Duty,  Ode  on  Inti- 
mations of  Immortality,  Sonnets  8,  9,  10,  19,  23, 
27,  29,  36,  Influence  of  Natural  Objects,  There 
was  a  Boy,  Yew  Trees,  Lines  above  Tintern 
Abbey,  To  My  Infant  Daughter,  French  Revo- 
lution, A  Farewell,  Stanzas  in  Thomson's  Castle 
of  Indolence,  Matthew,  The  Fountain,  A  Poet's 
Epitaph,  Lines  on  the  Death  of  Mr.  Fox,  A  Picture 
of  Peele  Castle,  Evening  Voluntaries. 

Samuel  Taylor  Coleridge .  1772-1834. 
The  Rime  of  the  Ancient  Mariner. 
Love. 

Biographia  Literaria,  Chapters  IV,  XIV,  XVII,  XIX, 
XXII. 

Thomas  De  Quincey.     1785-1859. 

Recollections  of  Coleridge  and  Wordsworth.  [Mas- 
son's  edition  of  De  Quincey 's  Works,  Vol.  II, 
Chapters  II-V.] 

The  Affliction  of  Childhood.  [Masson's  edition, 
Vol.  I,  Chapter  II.] 

The  English  Mail-Coach.  [Masson's  edition, 
Vol.  XIII.] 

Charles  Lamb.     1775-1834. 

Of  the  Essays  of  Elia,  the  following :  Christ's  Hospital 
Five  and  Thirty  Years  Ago,  A  Chapter  on  Ears,  A 
Quakers'  Meeting,  My  Relations,  Mackery  End  in 
Hertfordshire,  Dream  Children,  A  Dissertation  upon 
Roast  Pig,  The  Superannuated  Man,  Old  China. 


62  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

George  Gordon  Noel  Byron .     1 7  8  8  - 1 8  2  4. 
Childe  Harold,  Canto  IV. 

Percy  Bysshe  Shelley.     1792-1822. 

1.  From   Select   Poems   by   Shelley,   edited  by  W.  J. 

Alexander  (Athenaeum  Press  Series),  the  following: 
In  Lechlade  Churchyard,  Hymn  to  Intellectual 
Beauty,  Mont  Blanc,  In  Dejection  near  Naples, 
Lines  Written  among  the  Euganean  Hills,  Ode  to 
the  West  Wind,  The  Sensitive  Plant,  The  Cloud, 
To  a  Skylark,  Ode  to  Liberty,  Arethusa,  Adonais, 
"  Music  when  soft  voices  die,"  The  Aziola,  Song  — 
M  Rarely  comest  thou,  Spirit  of  Delight,"  "  One 
word  is  too  often  profaned,"  A  Lament,  To  Jane  — 
the  Invitation,  To  Jane  —  the  Recollection,  With 
a  Guitar  —  to  Jane,  Lines  in  the  Bay  of  Lerici, 
Hellas  —  closing  chorus. 

2.  Or,  From  the  volume  of  Poems  from  Shelley,  selected 

and  arranged  by  Stopford  A.  Brooke,  the  following : 
Hymn  to  Intellectual  Beauty,  Ode  to  Liberty, 
"  Poems  of  Nature  and  Man,"  and  "  Poems  of 
Pure  Nature,"  The  Sensitive  Plant,  Last  Love 
Poems,  Adonais,  Ode  to  the  West  Wind. 

John  Keats.     1795-1821. 
The  Eve  of  St.  Agnes. 
Ode  to  a  Nightingale. 
Ode  on  a  Grecian  Urn. 
To  Autumn. 
Hyperion,  Book  I. 
La  belle  dame  sans  meroi. 


COURSE  IV  63 

Sonnets :  On  Looking  into  Chapman's  Homer,  M  How 
many  bards  gild  the  lapses  of  time,"  M  Keen  fitful 
gusts  are  whisp'ring  here  and  there,"  On  the 
Grasshopper  and  Cricket,  M  When  I  have  fears 
that  I  may  cease  to  be,"  "  Bright  star !  would  I 
were  steadfast  as  thou  art." 


Passages  to  be  memorized 

Wordsworth.  w  Three  years  she  grew,"  stanzas  2,  3,  4,  5. 
The  Solitary  Reaper. 

Ode  on  Intimations  of  Immortality,  stanzas  5,  9. 
Lines  above  Tintern  Abbey,  ten  lines  beginning, 

"And  I  have  felt 
A  presence  that  disturbs  me  with  the  joy 
Of  elevated  thoughts." 

M  She  was  a  phantom  of  delight." 

Sonnet :  M  The  world  is  too  much  with  us." 

Coleridge.  The  Ancient  Mariner,  Part  III,  stanzas 
7-13;  Part  V,  stanzas  15-18;  Part  VII,  stanzas 
22,  23. 

Lamb.  Dream  Children.  The  last  third  of  the  essay, 
beginning,  "  Then,  in  a  somewhat  more  heightened 
tone,  I  told,"  etc. 

Byrofi.     Childe  Harold,  Canto  IV,  stanzas  178,  179,  183. 

Shelley.     The  Cloud,  stanzas  1,  3,  4,  6. 
To  a  Skylark,  stanzas  17,  18. 


64  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

Ode  to  the  West  Wind,  iv,  v. 

e<  Music  when  soft  voices  die." 

M  Rarely,  rarely  comest  thou,"  stanzas  5,  6,  7, 

Keats.     Ode  to  a  Nightingale,  stanzas  3,  7,  8. 
Ode  on  a  Grecian  Urn,  stanzas  2,5. 
Eve  of  St.  Agnes,  stanzas  25,  30,  33. 
Sonnet :  On  Looking  into  Chapman's  Homer. 


COURSE  IV  65 


NOTES 


I.    EDITIONS  RECOMMENDED 

Wordsworth.  1.  Poems  by  William  Wordsworth. 
A  Selection,  edited  by  Edward  Dowden.  [Athe- 
naeum Press  Series.] 

2.  Poems  of  Wordsworth.     Chosen  and  edited  by 

Matthew  Arnold. 

3.  The  Poetical  Works  of  William  Wordsworth,  with 

Introduction  and  Notes.  Edited  by  Thomas 
Hutchinson.  [Oxford  Edition.  Accurate  text.] 

4.  The  Complete  Poetical  Works  of  William  Words- 

worth, with  an  Introduction  by  John  Morley. 

5.  The  Poetical  Works  of  William  Wordsworth. 

Edited,  with  Memoir,  by  Edward  Dowden. 
7  vols.     [Aldine  Edition.] 

6.  The  Works  of  William   and   Dorothy  Words- 

worth. 8  vols.  The  Prose  Works.  2  vols. 
The  Journals  of  Dorothy  Wordsworth.  2  vols. 
Edited  by  William  Knight.  (This  is  the  most 
complete  edition;  it  supersedes  Knight's 
Library  Edition,  1882-1886,  and  corrects 
numerous  errors  of  that  edition.) 

7.  The  Complete  Poetical  Works  of  Wordsworth. 

Edited  by  Andrew  J.  George.  [Cambridge 
Edition.] 

Coleridge.  1.  The  Poetical  Works  of  Samuel  Taylor 
Coleridge.  Edited,  with  a  Biographical  Intro- 
duction,   by   James    Dykes    Campbell.     (Best 


66  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

edition  of  the  poetry ;  the  Introduction  is  also 
the  latest  and  best  memoir  of  the  poet.) 

2.  Coleridge's  Principles  of  Criticism,  Chapters  I, 

III,  IV,  XIV-XXII  of  Biographia  Literaria. 
With  Introduction  and  Notes  by  Andrew  J. 
George. 

3.  The  Friend  ;  Biographia  Literaria  and  Lay  Ser- 

mons ;  Aids  to  Reflection  and  Confessions 
of  an  Enquiring  Spirit ;  Lectures  on  Shake- 
speare.    [Bohn's  Standard  Library.] 

4.  The   Complete  Works,   with    an   Introductory 

Essay  upon  His  Philosophical  and  Theolog- 
ical Opinions  by  Rev.  James  Marsh,  D.D. 
Edited  by  Professor  Shedd.     7  vols.     (This 
American  edition  is   still   perhaps  the  best 
uniform  edition  of  all  Coleridge's  writings. 
Vol.  Ill  contains  the  Biographia  Literaria; 
Vol.  VII,   the  Ancient   Mariner,   and  other 
poetical  and  dramatic  works.) 
De  Quincey.     1.  Selections    from    the  Writings   of 
De  Quincey,  with  Introduction  and  Notes  by 
Milton  H.  Turk.     [Athenaeum  Press  Series.] 

2.  The  Collected  Writings  of  Thomas  De  Quincey. 

Edited  by  David  Masson.  14  vols.  (The  latest, 
fullest,  and  most  carefully  edited  edition.) 

3.  The  Works  of  Thomas  De  Quincey.     12  vols. 

[Riverside  Edition.] 

4.  Confessions  of  an  English  Opium  Eater,  with 

Introduction  and  Notes  by  G.  A.  Wauchope. 
(Part  I,  in  the  original  version  of  182 1 ;  Parts 
II  and  III  in  the  revised  version  of  1856.) 


COURSE  IV  67 

Lamb.     1.  The    Essays    of    Elia.     With    an   Intro- 
duction and  Notes  by  Alfred  Ainger. 
2.  The  Works  of  Charles  and  Mary  Lamb.    Edited 
by  E.  V.  Lucas.     7  vols.     (Vol.  II,  The  Es- 
says of  Elia.     Latest  and  best  edition.) 

Byron.  1.  Childe  Harold.  Edited,  with  Notes,  by 
H.  E.  Tozer.     [Clarendon  Press  Series.] 

2.  The  Poetical  Works  of  Lord  Byron.     Edited, 

with  a  Memoir,  by  Ernest  Hartley  Coleridge. 
(Best  one-volume  edition.) 

3.  The  Works  of  Lord  Byron.     A  new,  revised, 

and  enlarged  edition.  Letters  and  Journals, 
edited  by  Roland  E.  Prothero.  Poetry, 
edited  by  Ernest  Hartley  Coleridge.  (Most 
complete  edition.  Letters  and  Journals. 
6  vols.     Poetry.     7  vols.) 

4.  The  Poetical  Works.     [Oxford  Edition.] 

5.  Complete    Poetical    Works.     Edited    by    Paul 

Elmer  More.     [Cambridge  Edition.] 

Stielley.  1.  Select  Poems  of  Shelley.  Edited,  with 
Introduction  and  Notes,  by  W.  J.  Alexander. 
[Athenaeum  Press  Series.] 

2.  Poems  from  Shelley.     Selected  and  arranged 

by  Stopford  A.  Brooke. 

3.  Prometheus   Unbound.     Edited    by   Vida   D. 

Scudder. 

4.  The   Complete    Poetical   Works.      Edited   by 

Edward  Dowden. 

5.  The    Complete    Poetical    Works.      Edited    by 

George  E.  Woodberry.    [Cambridge  Edition.] 


68  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

6.  Complete    Poetical  Works.      Edited,   with    an 

Introductory  Memoir  and  Notes,  by  George 
E.  Woodberry.    4  vols.    [Centenary  Edition.] 

7.  The  Complete  Poetical  Works,  with  Notes  and 

a  Memoir  by  W.  M.  Rossetti.     3  vols. 

8.  The  Poetical  Works.     Edited  by  H.  B.  Forman. 

5  vols.     [Aldine  Edition.] 

9.  The  Prose  Works.     Edited  by  H.  B.  Forman. 

4  vols. 

Keats.  1.  The  Complete  Poetical  Works  and 
Letters  of  John  Keats.  Edited  by  H.  E. 
Scudder.  [Cambridge  Edition.]  (Best  edition 
for  general  use ;  brings  into  one  volume,  of 
not  inconvenient  size,  the  whole  body  of  Keats's 
writing.) 

2.  Poems  by  John  Keats.     Edited,  with  Introduc- 

tion and  Notes,  by  Arlo  Bates.  [Athenaeum 
Press  Series.] 

3.  The  Poetical  Works,  with  Notes  by  Francis  T. 

Palgrave.     (Well  edited  and  convenient.) 

4.  Poetical  Works.     Edited  by  William  T.  Arnold. 

5.  The    Poetical    Works    and    Other    Writings. 

Edited,  with  Notes  and  Appendixes,  by 
H.  B.  Forman.  4  vols.  [Vols.  I,  II,  Poetry ; 
Vols.  Ill,  IV,  Prose.]  (The  most  complete 
edition.) 

6.  The  Poems  of  John  Keats,  with  an  Introduction 

and  Notes  by  E.  de  Selincourt.  (Full  bio- 
graphical and  critical  notes ;  of  special  value 
as  indicating  the  influences  that  decided  the 
development  of  the  poet's  genius.) 


COURSE  IV  69 

ADDITIONAL  READING 

1.  From  Authors  already  mentioned 

Wordsworth.     The  volume  of  Selections  by  Matthew 
Arnold,  or  that  by  A.  J.  George  —  both  men- 
tioned above  —  entire. 
The  Prelude,  especially  Books  I,  II,  IV,  XII, 

XIII,  XIV. 
The  Excursion,  Books  If  II,  VI,  VII. 
Coleridge.     Poems :  Christabel. 
Kubla  Khan. 

Ode  to  the  Departing  Year. 
Ode  to  France. 
Fears  in  Solitude. 
Hymn  in  the  Vale  of  Chamouni. 
The  Nightingale. 
Frost  at  Midnight. 
Ode  to  Dejection. 
Youth  and  Age. 
Prose:  Biographia  Literaria,  Chapters  I-IV,XIII- 
XXII. 
From  the  Lectures  on  Shakespeare,  the  sections 

M  Definition  of  Poetry  "  and  "  Shakespeare 

a  Poet,  generally." 
De  Quincey.    Confessions  of  an  English  Opium  Eater. 
Levana,  and  Our  Ladies  of  Sorrow. 
Joan  of  Arc. 
Lamb.     Essays  of  Elia.     First  Series,  entire. 

From  the  Last  Essays,  these :  Detached  Thoughts 

on  Books  and  Reading,  The  Genteel  Style  in 

Writing,  The  Tombs  in  the  Abbey,  The  Child 

Angel. 


JO  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

Christ's  Hospital  Five  and  Thirty  Years  Ago. 

From  the  Correspondence,  the  following  let- 
ters: To  Coleridge,  Jan.  10,  1797  ;  Feb.  13, 
1797  ;  To  Southey,  July  28,  1798  ;  To  Man- 
ning, Aug.  11, 1800;  To  Wordsworth,  Jan.  30, 
180 1 ;  To  Manning,  Sept.  24,  1802  ;  To  Mrs. 
Wordsworth,  Feb.  1 8, 1 8 1 8 ;  To  Southey  (open 
letter  of  Elia  to  Robert  Southey,  printed  in 
the  Lond#n  Magazine,  October,  1823);  To 
Southey,  Nov.  21,  1823;  To  Wordsworth, 
April  6,  1825. 

Byron.     Childe  Harold,  Canto  III. 
The  Bride  of  Abydos. 
Manfred. 

The  Prisoner  of  Chillon. 
Don  Juan,  Canto  III. 
"  When  we  two  parted." 
M  On  this  day  I  complete  my  thirty-sixth  year." 

Sfielley.     Alastor. 

Prometheus  Unbound. 

Epipsychidion. 

Hellas. 

All  the  Minor  Lyrics  of  the  years  1817-1820. 

Keats.     "  I  stood  tiptoe  upon  a  little  hill." 
Sleep  and  Poetry. 
Endymion,  Book  I. 
Lamia. 

To  Psyche,  Melancholy. 
Fancy. 

Hyperion,  Books  II,  III. 
The  Eve  of  St.  Mark. 


COURSE  IV  71 

2.  From  Contemporary  Authors 

William  Hazlitt.     1778-1830. 

From  the  Table  Talk  :  On  the  Past  and  Future, 
On  People  with  One  Idea,  On  Living  to  One's 
Self,  On  Great  and  Small  Things,  Why  Dis- 
tant Objects  Please,  On  the  Fear  of  Death. 

From  the  Plain  Speaker:  The  Prose  Style  of 
Poets,  The  Pleasure  of  Hating,  Reading  Old 
Books,  People  of  Sense,  On  Antiquity,  On 
Novelty  and  Familiarity. 

From  Sketches  and  Essays :  Merry  England, 
On  a  Sun  Dial,  On  Disagreeable  People. 

From  Winterslow  :  My  First  Acquaintance  with 
Poets,  Of  Persons  One  would  Wish  to  have 
Seen,  Of  the  Feeling  of  Immortality  in  Youth, 
On  the  Character  of  Burke,  A  Farewell  to 
Essay  Writing. 

Walter  Scott.     1 7  7 1  - 1 83 2 . 
Marmion. 

The  Lady  of  the  Lake. 
Songs :  Jock  o'  Hazeldean,  County  Guy  (from 

Quentin  Durward),  Pibroch  of  Donald  Dhu. 
Novels :  Waverley. 

Guy  Mannering. 

Antiquary. 

Old  Mortality. 

The  Heart  of  Midlothian. 

Bride  of  Lammermoor. 

Quentin  Durward. 

Ivanhoe. 

Kenilworth. 


*]2  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

Walter  Savage  Landor.     1 7  7 5 -i 864. 

Imaginary  Conversations  —  Dialogues  of  Liter- 
ary Men : 

Lord  Brooke  and  Philip  Sidney. 

Southey  and  Porson. 

Chaucer,  Boccaccio,  and  Petrarca. 

Barrow  and  Newton. 

Landor  and  Archdeacon  Hare. 
Poems  :  A  Faesulan  Idyl. 

Rose  Aylmer. 
Jane  Austen.     1775-1817. 
Pride  and  Prejudice. 
Mansfield  Park. 
Emma. 

III.    SELECT  WORKS  OF  REFERENCE 

GENERAL  LITERARY  HISTORY  AND  CHARACTERISTICS 

Edward  Dowden.     1.  The  French  Revolution  and 
Literature,  The  Transcendental  Movement  and 
Literature.      [Studies    in    Literature.      1789- 
1877.]     1878. 
2.  The  French  Revolution  and  English  Literature. 
Lectures  delivered  in  Princeton  University. 
1897. 
Mrs.  \M.  O.]  Oliphant.      Literary  History  of  Eng- 
land in  the  End  of  the  Eighteenth  and  Beginning 
of  the  Nineteenth  Century.     3  vols.     1882. 
T.  Hall  Caine.  Cobwebs  of  Criticism.   1883.  (Show- 
ing the  temper  and  manner  of  much  early  criticism 
on  Wordsworth,  Coleridge,  Byron,  Shelley,  Keats.) 


COURSE  iv  73 

W.J.  Courthope.  The  Liberal  Movement  in  English 
Literature.     1885. 

G.  Saintsbury.      1.   Essays    in    English    Literature, 

1 780-1860.    First  Series,  1891 ;  Second  Series, 

1895.     (Biographical  and  critical  essays  upon 

the  prose  writers  of  this  period.) 

2.  A  History  of  Nineteenth  Century  Literature, 

1780-1895.     1896. 

Vida  D.  Scudder.  The  Life  of  the  Spirit  in  Modern 
English  Poets.     1896. 

C.  H.  Herford.  The  Age  of  Wordsworth.  1897. 
[Handbooks  of  English  Literature.]  (An  ad- 
mirable little  manual.) 

H.  A.  Beers.  A  History  of  English  Romanticism  in 
the  Nineteenth  Century.     1901. 

Arthur  Symons.  The  Romantic  Movement  in  Eng- 
lish Poetry.      1909. 

W.J.  Courthope.  History  of  English  Poetry,  Vol.  VI. 
1910. 

Considerable  information  concerning  the  lives  of  the 
writers  of  this  period,  and  concerning  the  literary  society 
of  the  period,  may  be  obtained  from  such  biographical 
works  as  the  following  : 

Thomas  De  Quincey.  Literary  Reminiscences  and 
Biographical  Essays.     1 835-1 840. 

Leigh  Hunt.     Autobiography.     3  vols.     1850. 

H.  Crabbe  Robinson.  Diary  and  Correspondence. 
2  vols.      187 1. 

Benjamin  R.  Haydon.  Correspondence  and  Table 
Talk.     2  vols.     1876.     ' 


74  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

Charles  and  Mary  Cowden  Clarke.  Recollections  of 
Writers.     1878. 

Carolifie  Fox.     Memories  of  Old  Friends.     1882. 

E.  T.  Mason.  Personal  Traits  of  English  Authors. 
4  vols.  1885.  (Made  up  of  quotations  from 
various  biographical  works.) 

S.  Smiles.  A  Publisher  and  His  Friends.  Memoirs 
and  Correspondence  of  John  Murray.     1891. 

Mrs.  [M  O.]  Oliphant.  William  Blackwood  and  His 
Sons :  Their  Magazine  and  Friends.  3  vols. 
1897-1898. 


WORDSWORTH 
1.  Biographical  < 

F  W.  Myers.  Life.  1881.  [English  Men  of  Let- 
ters Series.] 

Walter  Raleigh.     Wordsworth.     1903. 

W.  Knight.  Life.  3  vols.  1889.  (Forming  Vols. 
IX,  X,  XI,  of  Knight's  edition  of  Wordsworth's 
Works.  The  fullest  and  most  recent  Life  of 
Wordsworth.) 

Memorials  of  Coleorton.  Letters  of  Wordsworth, 
Coleridge,  Southey,  and  Scott,  to  Sir  George 
and  Lady  Beaumont.     2  vols.     1887. 

H.  D.  Rawnsley.  Literary  Associations  of  the  Eng- 
lish Lakes.     2  vols.     1894. 


COURSE  iv  75 

2.  Critical 

Francis  Jeffrey.  Wordsworth's  Poetry.  (Contribu- 
tions to  the  Edinburgh  Review.  These  papers, 
reprinted  from  the  Edinburgh  Review,  October, 
1807,  to  November,  18 14,  are  the  most  famous 
of  the  early  attacks  on  Wordsworth.) 

William  Hazlitt.  On  Wordsworth.  [Lectures  on 
the  English  Poets.  18 18.]  Wordsworth.  [Spirit 
of  the  Age.     1825.] 

Thomas  De  Quincey.  On  Wordsworth's  Poetry.  1845. 
[Works,  Masson's  edition,  Vol.  XI.] 

David Masson.  Wordsworth.  1856.  [Wordsworth, 
Shelley,  and  Keats.] 

Arthur  Hugh  Clough.  On  the  Poetry  of  Words- 
worth.    1853(F).     [Prose  Remains.] 

Walter  Bagehot.  Wordsworth,  Tennyson,  and  Brown- 
ing; or,  Pure,  Ornate,  and  Grotesque  Art  in 
English  Poetry.  1864.  [Literary  Studies, 
Vol.  II.] 

J.  C.  Shairp.  1 .  Wordsworth,  the  Man  and  the  Poet. 
[Studies  in  Poetry  and  Philosophy.  Second 
edition.     1874.] 

2.  The  Journal  of  Dorothy  Wordsworth.     1875. 

3.  The    Three    Yarrows ;    The    White    Doe    of 

Rylstone.     [Aspects  of  Poetry.     1882.] 
J.  R.  Lowell.     Wordsworth.     [Among    My    Books, 

Vol.  II.     1876.] 
R.  H.  Hutton.      Wordsworth     and     His     Genius. 

[Essays,    Theological    and    Literary,    Vol.  II. 

Second  edition.     1877.] 


J6  ENGLISH   LITERATURE 

Leslie  Stephen.  Wordsworth's  Ethics.  [Hours  in  a 
Library.     Third  Series.     1879.] 

Matthew  Arnold.  Wordsworth.  1879.  [Essays  in 
Criticism.  Second  Series.]  (This  essay  is  the 
Introduction  to  Mr.  Arnold's  volume  of  Selec- 
tions from  Wordsworth,  mentioned  above.) 

H.  N.  Hudson.     Studies  in  Wordsworth.     1884. 

W.  J.  Courthope.  Wordsworth's  Theory  of  Poetry. 
[Liberal    Movement    in     English     Literature. 

1885.] 

E.  Lee.     Dorothy  Wordsworth.     1886. 

C.  F.  Johnson.      Wordsworth.      [Three    Americans 

and  Three  Englishmen.     1886.] 
Roden  Noel.     Wordsworth.     [Essays  on  Poetry  and 

Poets.     1886.] 
Aubrey  de  Vere.     Wordsworth.     [Essays,  Chiefly  on 

Poetry.     1887.] 
Edward  Dowden.     On  the  Text  of  Wordsworth's 

Poems.     [Transcripts  and  Studies.     1888.] 
Walter  Pater.    Wordsworth.    [Appreciations.    1889.] 
Wordsworth  Society.     Wordsworthian.     A   Selection 

from    Papers    read    before    the    Wordsworth 

Society.     Edited  by  William  Knight.     1889. 
W.J.  Dawson.    Makers  of  Modern  English,  Chapters 

X-XVI.     1890. 
Edmond  Scherer.     Wordsworth  and  Modern  Poetry. 

[Essays  on  English  Literature.     Translated  by 

George  Saintsbury.     189 1.] 
E.  Caird.     Wordsworth.     [Essays  on  Literature  and 

Philosophy,  Vol.  I.     1892.] 


course  iv  yy 

Vida  D.  Scudder.  Wordsworth  and  the  New  Democ- 
racy. [The  Life  of  the  Spirit  in  the  Modern 
English  Poets.     1896.] 

William  P.  Inge.  The  Mysticism  of  Wordsworth. 
[Studies  of  English  Mysticism.     1906.] 

A.  C.  Bradley.  Wordsworth.  [Oxford  Lectures  on 
Poetry.     1909.] 

COLERIDGE 
1.  Biographical 

J.  Dykes  Campbell.  Samuel  Taylor  Coleridge.  A 
Narrative  of  the  Events  of  His  Life.  1894. 
(Substantially  a  reprint  of  the  Introduction  in 
Campbell's  edition  of  the  Poetical  Works,  issued 
the  year  before.  This  is  now  much  the  best 
narrative  of  Coleridge's  life.) 

H.D.Traill.  Coleridge.  1884.  [English  Men  of 
Letters  Series.] 

T.  Hall  Came.    Life.    1887.    [Great  Writers  Series.] 

William  Hazlitt.  My  First  Acquaintance  with  Poets. 
1823.     [Winterslow,  Essays  written  there.] 

T.  Allsop.  Letters,  Conversations,  and  Reflections 
of  S.  T.  Coleridge.     2  vols.     1836. 

James  Gillma?i.  Life,  Vol.  I.  1838.  (No  more 
published.) 

Joseph  Cottle.  Reminiscences  of  Coleridge  and 
Southey.  1847.  (Valuable  authority  on  the 
early  life.) 

Thomas  Carlyle.  Life  of  Sterling.  185 1.  (Espe- 
cially Chapter  VIII  of  Part  I,  which  contains 
the  famous  picture  of  Coleridge  in  his  old  age.) 


78  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

Sara  Coleridge.  Memoirs  and  Correspondence. 
1874.  (Much  information  with  reference  to 
her  father.) 

Memorials  of  Coleorton.  1887.  (See  above,  under 
Wordsworth.) 

A.  Brandt.  Samuel  Taylor  Coleridge  and  the  Eng- 
lish Romantic  Movement.  Translated  by  Lady 
Eastlake.  1887.  (Perhaps  the  best  exposition 
of  Coleridge's  literary  relations.) 

Mrs.  Henry  Sandford.  Thomas  Poole  and  His 
Friends.  1888.  (Mr.  Poole's  greatest  and 
most  intimate  friend,  for  a  time,  was  Coleridge.) 

E.  H.  Coleridge.     1 .  Letters  of  Samuel  Taylor  Cole- 
ridge.  "  Edited  by   Ernest   Hartley   Coleridge. 
2  vols.     1895.     (The  only  collected  edition  of 
Coleridge's  letters ;  invaluable  for  a  picture  of 
his  life  and  character.) 
2.  Anima  Poetae.     From  the  Unpublished  Note 
Books  of  Samuel  Taylor  Coleridge.     Edited 
by  Ernest  Hartley  Coleridge.     1895. 

2.  Critical 
A.    On  his  Literary  Work 

E.  P.  Whipple.     Coleridge  as  a  Poet   and   Critic. 

[Literary  Essays  and  Reviews,  Vol.  I.     1848.] 
/  C.  Shairp.     Coleridge  as  Poet  and  Philosopher. 

[Studies  in  Poetry  and  Philosophy.     Second 

edition.     1874.] 
A.  C.  Swinburne.     Coleridge.     [Essays  and  Studies. 

1876.] 


COURSE  iv  79 

/.  R.  Lowell.  Address  in  Westminster  Abbey, 
7th  May,  1885.  [Democracy  and  Other  Ad- 
dresses.] 

C.  F.  Johnson.  Coleridge.  [Three  Americans  and 
Three  Englishmen.     1886.] 

Walter  Pater.     Coleridge.     [Appreciations.     1889.] 

G.  E.   Woodberry.     1.  Coleridge    and    Sir    George 
Beaumont.   [Studies  in  Letters  and  Life.    1890.] 
2.  Coleridge.     [Makers  of  Literature.     1900.] 

W.  Watson.  Coleridge's  Supernaturalism.  [Excur- 
sions in  Criticism.     1893.] 

Richard  Garnett.  The  Poetry  of  Coleridge.  [Essays 
of  an  Ex-Librarian.     1901.] 

B.   On  his  Philosophical  Position  and  Influence 

James  Marsh.  Essay  on  the  Philosophical  and 
Theological  Opinions  of  Coleridge.  1829. 
(Prefixed  to  the  edition  of  his  works  mentioned 
above,  p.  66.) 

W.  G.  T.  Shedd.  Coleridge  as  a  Philosopher  and 
Theologian.  1836.  [Literary  Essays.]  (Same 
essay  prefixed  to  the  edition  of  his  works  men- 
tioned above,  p.  66.) 

/.  S.  Mill.  Coleridge.  1840.  [Dissertations  and 
Discussions,  Vol.  II.] 

James  Martineau.  Personal  Influences  on  Our  The- 
ology —  Coleridge.  1856.  [Essays,  Philosoph- 
ical and  Theological,  Vol.  I.] 


80  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

/.  H.  Green.  Spiritual  Philosophy ;  founded  on  the 
Teaching  of  S.  T.  Coleridge.  Edited,  with  a 
Memoir,  by  T.  Simon.     2  vols.     1865. 

/.  Tulloch.  Coleridge  and  His  School.  [Religious 
Thought  in  Britain  during  the  Nineteenth 
Century.     1885.] 

DE  QUINCEY 
1.  Biographical 

David  Masson.    DeQuincey.    1882.    [English  Men 

of  Letters  Series.] 
H.  A.  Page  (pseudonym  for  A.  H.  Japf).     Life  and 

Writings.     2  vols.     1877.     (The  standard  life.) 
/  R.  Findlay.    Personal  Recollections  of  De  Quincey. 

1885. 
A.  H.  Japp.     De  Quincey  Memorials  ;  being  Letters 

and  Other  Records,  edited  with  Introduction, 

Notes,  and  Narrative.     2  vols.     1891. 

2.  Critical 

David  Masson.  Prose  and  Verse  —  De  Quincey. 
[Wordsworth,  Shelley,  Keats,  and  other  essays. 

1856.] 

William  Minto.  De  Quincey's  Style.  [Manual  of 
English  Prose  Literature,  Part  I.  1872.]  (A 
detailed  examination  of  De  Quincey's  style  as 
illustrating  rhetorical  principles.) 

Leslie  Stephen.  De  Quincey.  [Hours  in  a  Library. 
First  Series.     1874.] 


COURSE  IV  8 1 

George  Saintsbury.  De  Quincey.  [Essays  in  Eng- 
lish Literature,  1 780-1860.     189 1.] 

C.  T.  Winchester.  Thomas  De  Quincey.  [A  Group 
of  English  Essayists.     19 10.] 

LAMB 

A.  Ainger.     Charles  Lamb.    1888.    (Best  brief  life. 

Originally  published  in  the  English  Men  of 
Letters  Series,  but  enlarged  and  revised  for 
this  edition.) 

E.  V.  Lucas.     The  Life  of  Charles  Lamb.     2  vols. 

1905.     (The  standard  life.) 
Thomas  De  Quincey.    Personal  Reminiscences,  1838; 

Biography,  1848.     [Works,   Masson's   edition, 

Vols.  Ill,  IV.] 
T.  N.  Talfourd.    Memorial  of  Charles  Lamb.    1848. 

B.  W.  Procter  {Barry  Cornwall).    Charles  Lamb  :  A 

Memoir.     1866. 

Annie  Gilchrist.  Life  of  Mary  Lamb.  1883.  [Emi- 
nent Women  Series.] 

A.  C.  Swinburne.  Charles  Lamb  and  George  Wither. 
[Miscellanies.     1886.] 

A.   Birrell.      1.  Charles     Lamb.       [Obiter     Dicta. 
Second  Series.     1887.] 
2.  The  Letters  of  Charles  Lamb.     [Res  Judicatae. 
1892.] 

Walter  Pater.  Charles  Lamb.  [Appreciations.  1889.] 

F.  Harrison.     Lamb  and  Keats.     [Tennyson,  Rus- 

kin,  Mill,  and  other  essays.     1900.] 


82  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

G.  E.  Woodberry.     Charles  Lamb ;  or,  Elia.    [Makers 

of  Literature.     1900.] 
Alfred Ainger.     The   Letters  of  Lamb;    Lamb  in 

Hertfordshire.     [Lectures  and  Essays,  Vol.  II. 

i9°5-] 
Paul E.  More.     Charles  Lamb.     [Shelburne  Essays. 

Second  Series.     1905.] 
C.  T.  Winchester.      Charles    Lamb.     [A   Group   of 

English  Essayists.     19 10.] 

BYRON 

1.  Biographical 

A.    Recent  Works 

Roden  Noel.  Life.  1890.  [Great  Writers  Series.] 
(The  latest,  and  perhaps  the  best,  brief  sketch.) 

John  Nichol.  Byron.  1880.  [English  Men  of 
Letters  Series.] 

Karl  Elze.  Lord  Byron:  A  Biography.  1872. 
(Full,  and  in  the  main  excellent.) 

/  C.Jeaffreson.     The  Real  Lord  Byron.     1883. 

B.    Contemporary  Works 
R.  C.  Dallas.     Recollections  of  Lord  Byron.     1824. 
Leigh  Hunt.     Lord  Byron  and  His  Contemporaries. 

1828. 
J.Kennedy.    Conversations  with  Lord  Byron.    1830. 
Thomas  Moore.     The  Life  and  Prose  Works  of  Lord 

Byron.     2  vols.     1830. 


COURSE  IV  83 

E.  J.  Trelawney.     Recollections  of  Shelley,  Byron, 

and  the  Author.     1858. 
Teresa  Giciccioli,  Countess.    My  Recollections  of  Lord 

Byron.     2  vols.     1869. 

2.  Personal  and  Literary  Criticism 
William  Hazlitt.     Lord  Byron.     [Spirit  of  the  Age. 

1825.] 

T.  B.  Macaulay.     Byron.     1830.    [Essays,  Vol.  I.] 
Joseph  Mazzini.   Byron  and  Goethe.  1839.  [Writings, 

Vol.  VI ;  or,  Essays,  in  M  Camelot  Series."] 
E.  P.  Whipple.      Byron.      [Essays    and    Reviews, 

Vol.  I.     1848.] 
John  Morley.     Byron.     [Miscellanies,  Vol.  I.    1877.] 
A.  C.  Swinburne.     1.  Byron.     [Essays  and  Studies. 

1876.] 
2.  Wordsworth  and  Byron.    [Miscellanies.    1886.] 
Matthew  Arnold.     Byron.     1881.     [Essays  in  Criti- 
cism.    Second  Series.]     (Same  essay  prefixed 

to  his  volume  of  Selections  from  Byron.) 
Andrew  Lang.      To    Byron.      [Letters    to    Dead 

Authors.     1886.] 
Roden  Noel.     Lord  Byron  and  His  Times.     [Essays 

on  Poetry  and  Poets.     1886.] 
W.  J.  Dawson.     Lord  Byron.     [Makers  of  Modern 

English.     189 1.] 
W.  P.  Trent.     The  Byron  Revival.     [The  Authority 

of  Criticism,  and  other  essays.     1900.] 
G.  E.  Woodberry.     The  Byron  Centenary.     [Makers 

of  Literature.     1900.] 


84  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

SHELLEY 

i.  Biographical 

A.    Recent  Works 

William    Sharp.      Life.      1887.      [Great      Writers 

Series.]     (Best  short  sketch.) 
Edward  Dow  den.     Life.     2  vols.     1887.    (The  best 

authority ;  will  probably  be  the  standard  life.) 

D.  F.  MacCarthy.     Shelley's  Early  Life.     1872. 
G.  B.  Smith.     Shelley:  A  Critical  Biography.    1877. 
/  A.  Symonds.     Shelley.     1879.     [English  Men  of 

Letters  Series.] 

W.  M.  Rossetti.  Memoir  of  Shelley.  (Prefixed  to 
Rossetti's  edition  of  the  Poems.  1881.  A 
careful  and  well-written  memoir.) 

/  C.  Jeaffreson.     The  Real  Shelley.     1885. 

Helen  Moore.     Mary  Wollstonecraft  Shelley.     1886. 

F.  .Rabbe.     Shelley:  The  Man  and  the  Poet.    1888. 

B.   Contemporary  or  Early  Works 

Leigh  Hunt.     Lord  Byron  and  His  Contemporaries. 

1828. 
T.  Medwin.     The  Shelley  Papers.     1833. 
Thomas  De  Quincey.      Notes   on    Shelley.     1846. 

[Works,  Masson's  edition,  Vol.  XL] 
T.  J.  Hogg.     Life   of   Shelley,  Vols.  I,  II.     1858. 

(No  more  published.) 

E.  J.  Trelawney.     Records  of  Shelley,  Byron,  and 

the  Author.     1858. 
Mary  W.  S/ielley.     Shelley  Memorials  from  Authen- 
tic Sources.     1859. 


COURSE  IV  85 

2.  Personal  and  Literary  Criticism 

E.  P.  Whipple.      Shelley.     [Essays   and    Reviews, 

Vol.  I.     1848.] 
Walter Bagehot.     Shelley.     1856.     [Literary  Studies, 

Vol.  I.] 
David  Masson.     Wordsworth,   Shelley,  and  Keats. 

1874. 
A.  C.  Swinburne.     Notes  on  the  Text  of  Shelley. 

[Essays  and  Studies.     1876.] 
R.  H.  Hutton.  Shelley's  Poetical  Mysticism.  [Essays, 

Theological  and  Literary,  Vol.  II.   Second  edi- 
tion.    1877.] 
/.  C.  Shairp.     Shelley  as   a  Lyric   Poet.    [Aspects 

of  Poetry.     1882.] 
C.  F.  Johnson.     Shelley.     [Three   Americans   and 

Three  Englishmen.     1886.] 
Andrew    Lang.     To    Shelley.     [Letters    to    Dead 

Authors.     1886.] 
Roden  Noel.    Shelley.    [Essays  on  Poetry  and  Poets. 

1886.] 
Edward  Dowden.     1.  Shelley's  Philosophical  View 

of  Reform. 
2.  Last    Words    on    Shelley.     [Transcripts    and 
Studies.     1888.] 
Matthew  Ar?wld.     Shelley.     [Essays    in   Criticism. 

Second  Series.     1888.] 
G.  E.  Woodberry.     1 .  Remarks  on  Shelley.   [Studies 

in  Letters  and  Life.    1890.  Reprinted  in  Makers 

of  Literature.     1900.] 
2.  Shelley's  Poetry;  Shelley's  Work.     [Makers  of 
Literature.     1900.] 


86  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

W.J.  Dawson.  Shelley.  [Makers  of  Modern  Lit- 
erature.    1 89 1.] 

W.  P.  Trent.  Apropos  of  Shelley.  [The  Authority 
of  Criticism,  and  other  essays.     1900.] 

Richard  Garnett.  Shelley  and  Lord  Beaconsfield ; 
Shelley's  Views  on  Art.  [Essays  of  an  Ex- 
Librarian.     1 90 1.] 

Stopford  Brooke.  Address  to  the  Shelley  Society ; 
The  Lyrics  of  Shelley  ;  Epipsychidion.  [Studies 
in  Poetry.     1907.] 

KEATS 
1.  Biographical 

Sidney  Colvin.  Life.  1887.  [English  Men  of  Letters 
Series.]     (The  best  life.) 

W.  M.  Rossetti.  Life.     1887.    [Great  Writers  Series.] 

R.  Monckton  Milnes,  Lord  Houghton.  Life  and  Let- 
ters. Second  edition.  1867.  (This  was  the 
first  extended  biography,  and  is  still  of  interest, 
though  later  study  of  the  poet's  life  has  corrected 
some  of  its  statements.) 

H.  B.  Forman.  Love  Letters  of  Keats  to  Fanny 
Brawne.     1878. 

Sidney  Colvin.  Letters  of  John  Keats  to  his  Family 
and  Friends.    Edited  by  Sidney  Colvin.    1891. 

Albert  E.  Hancock.  John  Keats :  A  Literary  Biog- 
raphy.    1908. 


COURSE  IV  87 

2.  Critical 

David  Masson.     Wordsworth,  Shelley,  and  Keats. 

1874. 
/  R.  Lowell.    Keats.     [Among  My  Books.    Second 

Series.     1876.] 

W.  T.  Arnold.  The  Poetical  Style  of  Keats.  [Intro- 
duction to  Arnold's  edition  of  the  Poems. 
1884.] 

Roden  Noel.  Keats.  [Essays  on  Poetry  and  Poets. 
1886.] 

A.  C.  Swinburne.     Keats.     [Miscellanies.     1886.] 

Matthew  Arnold.  Keats.  [Essays  in  Criticism. 
Second  Series.     1888.]      * 

G.  E.  Woodberry.  On  the  Promise  of  Keats.  [Studies 
in  Letters  and  Life.     1890.] 

Hamilton  Mabie.  John  Keats,  Poet  and  Man.  [Essays 
in  Literary  Interpretation.     1892.] 

W.  Watson.  Keats  and  Mr.  Colvin.  [Excursions 
in  Criticism.     1893.] 

Bradfoi'd  Torrey.  A  Relish  of  Keats.  [Friends  on 
the  Shelf.     1906.] 

Paul  Elmer  More.  Keats.  [Shelburne  Essays. 
Fourth  Series.     1906.] 

Stopford Brooke.    Keats.    [Studies  in  Poetry.    1907.] 

A.  C.  Bradley.  Keats.  [Oxford  Lectures  on  Poetry. 
1909.] 


88  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 


HAZLITT 


Augustine  Birrell.     William  Hazlitt.     [English  Men 

of  Letters  Series.     1902.]     (Best  brief  life.) 
W.  C.  Hazlitt.    Memoir  of  William  Hazlitt.     2  vols. 

1867.    (This  is  perhaps  the  standard  biography  ; 

but  it  is  not  well  written,  and  shows  neither 

accuracy  nor  good  taste.) 

Thomas  De  Quincey.  William  Hazlitt.  [Notes  on 
Gillfillan's  Literary  Portraits.  1846.  Works, 
Massons  edition,  Vol.  XL] 

P.  G.  Patmore.  My  Friends  and  Acquaintance. 
3  vols.     1854. 

B.  W.  Procter.     An  Autobiographic  Fragment,  and 

Biographica!  Notes.     1877. 

Leslie  Stephen.  William  Hazlitt.  [Hours  in  a  Library. 
Third  Series.     188 1.] 

A.  Ireland.  Memoir  Biographical  and  Critical.  [In- 
troduction to  William  Hazlitt,  Essayist  and 
Critic.     A  Volume  of  Selections.     1889.] 

G.  Saintsbury.  Hazlitt.  [Essays  in  English  Litera- 
ture, 1 780-1860,  Vol.  I.     189 1.] 

A.  Birrell.     Hazlitt.     [Res  Judicatae.     1892.] 

W.  E.  Henley.    (Introduction  to  his  Collected  Edition 

of  the  Works  of  Hazlitt.     1902.) 
Bradford  Torrey.    William  Hazlitt.     [Friends  on  the 

Shelf.     1906.] 

C.  T.  Winchester.     William   Hazlitt.     [A   Group  of 

English  Essayists.     191  o.] 


COURSE  IV  89 

SCOTT 

1.  Biographical 

R.  H.  Hutton.  Life.   [English  Men  of  Letters  Series.] 

Andrew  Lang.  Walter  Scott.  [Literary  Lives  Series. 
1906.] 

J.  G.  Lockhart.  Memoirs  of  the  Life  of  Sir  Walter 
Scott.  7  vols-  1837-1838.  (The  standard 
life.     Reprinted  in  many  editions.) 

Journal  of  Sir  Walter  Scott,  from  the  Original  Manu- 
script at  Abbotsford,  November,  1825,  to  April, 
1832.     2  vols.     1890. 

2.  Critical 

William  Hazlitt.  Sir  Walter  Scott.  [Spirit  of  the 
Age.     1825.] 

Francis  Jeffrey.  Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel ;  The 
Waverley  Novels.  [Contributions  to  the  Edin- 
burgh Review.     1853.] 

Thomas  Carlyle.  Sir  Walter  Scott.  1838.  [Mis- 
cellaneous Essays,  Vol.  IV.] 

Walter  Bagehot.  The  Waverley  Novels.  1858. 
[Literary  Studies,  Vol.  II.] 

David  Masson.  British  Novelists  and  Their  Styles. 
1859. 

Leslie  Stephen.  Some  Words  about  Sir  Walter  Scott. 
[Hours  in  a  Library.     First  Series.     1-874.] 

J.  C.  Sfiairp.  The  Homeric  Spirit  in  Walter  Scott. 
[Aspects  of  Poetry.     1882.] 

Andrew  Lang.  To  Sir  Walter  Scott.  [Letters  to 
Dead  Authors.     1886.] 


90  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

Henry  D.  Sedgwick.  Lockhart's  Life  of  Scott.  [Essays 

on  Great  Writers.     1903.] 
Stopford  Brooke.     Sir   Walter    Scott.     [Studies   in 

Poetry.     1907.] 
G.  K.  Chesterton.      The    Position  of   Walter  Scott. 

[Varied  Types.     1909.] 

LANDOR 

Sidney  Colvin.     Landor.     1881.     [English  Men  of 

Letters  Series.] 
John  Forster.    Walter  Savage  Landor :  A  Biography. 

2  vols.    1869.    Second  edition,  abridged,  1876. 

(The  standard  life.) 
Thomas   De  Quincey.     Notes   on    Landor.     1847. 

[Works,  Masson's  edition,  Vol.  XL] 
Edward  Doiuden.    Walter  Savage  Landor.    [Studies 

in  Literature,  1 789-1877.     1878.] 
Leslie  Stephen.     Landor's  Imaginary  Conversations. 

[Hours  in  a  Library.     Second  Series.     1879.] 
A.  C.  Swinburne.     Landor.     [Miscellanies.     1886.] 
/  R.  Lowell.  Some  Letters  of  Walter  Savage  Landor. 

[Last  Literary  Essays.     1888.] 
G.  E.  Woodberry.     Landor.     [Studies  in  Letters  and 

Life.     1890.] 
W.  B.  S.  Clytner.     Introduction   to  Selections  from 

Landor.     1898.     [Athenaeum  Press  Series.] 

JANE  AUSTEN 

Goldwin  Smith.   Life.    1890.    [Great  Writers  Series.] 
/  E.  A.  Leigh.     Memoirs  of  Jane  Austen,  by  Her 
Nephew.     Second  edition.     187 1. 


COURSE  IV  91 

Sarah  Tytler  (pseudonym  for  Henrietta  E.  Keddie). 

Jane  Austen  and  Her  Works.     1880. 
Anne  I.  Thackeray  {Mrs.  Ritchie).    A  Book  of  Sibyls. 

1883. 
Andrew  Lang.     To  Jane  Austen.    [Letters  to  Dead 

Authors.     1886.] 
W.  H.  Pollock.    Jane  Austen :  Her  Contemporaries 

and  Herself.     1899. 


92  ADDITIONAL  REFERENCES 


ADDITIONAL  REFERENCES  93 


94  ADDITIONAL  REFERENCES 


ADDITIONAL  REFERENCES  95 


96  ADDITIONAL  REFERENCES 


ADDITIONAL  REFERENCES  97 


COURSE  V 

CARLYLE  •  RUSKIN  ■  ARNOLD  ■  BROWNING  ■ 
TENNYSON 

Thomas  Carlyle.     1795-1881. 

Sartor  Resartus,  Book  II;  Book  III,  Chapter  VIII. 
Essay  on  Burns. 

John  Ruskin.     18 19-1900. 

Stones  of  Venice,  Vol.  I,  Chapter  IV  (Vol.  II,  Chapter 
IV  in  original  edition),  sections  1-22  ;  St.  Mark's. 
Sesame  and  Lilies. 

Crown  of  Wild  Olive,  Introduction  and  Lectures  I 
and  II.     [Work  and  Traffic] 

Matthew  Arnold.     182 2-1 888. 

Definition    of     Culture.     [Culture    and     Anarchy, 
Chapter  I.] 
Poems :  Dover  Beach. 
The  Future. 
The  Youth  of  Man. 
A  Summer  Night. 
Bacchanalia ;  or,  The  New  Age. 
Thyrsis. 
Rugby  Chapel. 
A  Southern  Night. 

Stanzas  from  the  Grande  Chartreuse. 
Obermann  Once  More. 
98 


COURSE  V  99 

Robert  Browning.     1812-1889. 

How  they  brought  the  Good  News  from  Ghent  to  Aix. 

Love  among  the  Ruins. 

A  Toccata  of  Galuppi's. 

Saul. 

My  Last  Duchess. 

The  Last  Ride  Together. 

"  Childe  Roland  to  the  Dark  Tower  came." 

An  Epistle  of  Karshish. 

Andrea  del  Sarto. 

One  Word  More. 

Confessions. 

Youth  and  Art. 

Abt  Vogler. 

Rabbi  Ben  Ezra. 

Prospice. 
Alfred  Tennyson.     1809-1892. 

Mariana. 

The  Palace  of  Art. 

The  Lotos-Eaters. 

Dora. 

"  You  ask  me,  why,  tho'  ill  at  ease." 

The  Gardener's  Daughter. 

Ulysses. 

Locksley  Hall. 

In  Memoriam :  The  Proem,  and  sections  1,  9-1 1, 

3°-35>  54-57.  85>  93~96>  I2°>  I24,  W- 
Idylls  of  the  King :  The  Passing  of  Arthur. 
Locksley  Hall  Sixty  Years  After. 
Merlin  and  the  Gleam. 
Crossing  the  Bar. 


IOO  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

Passages  to  be  memorized 

Carlyle.     Sartor  Resartus,  Book  III,  Chapter  VIII,  last 

two  paragraphs. 
Ruskin.     Sesame  and  Lilies,  II.     [Of  Queens'  Gardens], 

last  paragraph. 
Arnold.     The  Future,  last  two  stanzas. 

Thyrsis,  stanzas  14,  15,  21. 
Browning.     Saul,  section  18,  beginning,  M  See  the  King  ! 

I  would  help  him,  but  cannot,"  to  end  of  the  section. 

Abt  Vogler,  stanzas  9,  10. 

Rabbi  Ben  Ezra,  stanzas  1,  6,  27. 
Tennyson.     In    Memoriam :   Proem,  stanzas  5,   6 ;  sec- 
tion 54;  section  96,  stanzas  1-3. 

The  Passing  of  Arthur,  paragraph  beginning,  w  Last, 
as  by  some  one  deathbed  after  wail,"  and  para- 
graph beginning,  "  And  slowly  answered  Arthur 
from  the  barge." 

Crossing  the  Bar. 


COURSE  V  lOt 


NOTES 


I.    EDITIONS   RECOMMENDED 

Carlyle.  i.  Sartor  Resartus.  Edited  by  Archibald 
MacMechan.     [Athenaeum  Press  Series.] 

2.  Works,    with    Introductions    by  H.  D.  Traill. 

30  vols.  [Centenary  Edition.]  [Sartor  Resar- 
tus, 1  vol. ;  Critical  and  Miscellaneous  Essays, 
5  vols.,  of  which  Vol.  I  contains  the  essay  on 
Burns.]  (The  latest  and  best  edition;  the 
different  works  may  be  had  separately.) 

3.  Works.     37  vols.,  or  bound  in  18.     [People's 

Edition.]  [Sartor  Resartus,  1  vol. ;  Critical 
and  Miscellaneous  Essays,  7  vols.]  (This  is 
a  convenient  and  cheap  edition  ;  the  different 
works  may  be  had  separately.) 

Ruskin.  Works,  with  Introductions  by  Charles 
Eliot  Norton.  20  vols.  [Brantwood  Edition.] 
(This  edition  contains  Ruskin's  most  important 
works  in  the  final,  revised  form  which  Ruskin 
himself  preferred.  The  early  works  are  much 
abridged.  The  Modern  Painters,  in  particular, 
has  suffered  ruthless  excision,  all  the  descriptive 
portions  having  been  cut  away,  and  only  the 
theoretical  portion  —  Part  III  or  Vol.  II  of  the 
original  edition  —  retained.  Most  readers,  there- 
fore, will  prefer  to  read  this  book  either  in 
an  early  edition  or  in  some  later  edition  that 
reproduces    the    early    text.     The    Brantwood 


I02  EtfGLTSH   LITERATURE 

Edition,  moreover,  though  it  contains  all  the 
works  assigned  in  the  above  list,  does  not  in- 
clude the  Fors  Clavigera,  the  Praeterita,  and 
several  other  minor  works.  The  only  complete 
and  uniform  edition  of  Ruskin's  works  is  the 
superb  Library  Edition,  1903-  ,  of  which 
37  vols,  have  thus  far  (191 1)  been  issued.) 

Arnold.    1.  Complete  Poetical  Works.   [Macmillan's 
American  one-volume  edition.] 
2 .  Collected  Edition  of  Works  in  Prose  and  Verse. 
14  vols.     [Culture  and  Anarchy,  Vol.  III.] 

Browning.  1 .  Complete  Poetical  Works.  [Cambridge 
Edition.] 

2.  Poetical     and     Dramatic    Works.     [Riverside 

Edition.     6  vols.] 

3.  Complete  Works.   [Macmillan  Edition.  9  vols.] 

Tennyson.  1 .  Complete  Poetical  Works.  [Macmillan's 
one-volume  edition.] 

2.  Complete  Works.  Edited  by  W.  J.  Rolfe.   [Cam- 

bridge Edition.] 

3.  Complete  Works.   Edited  by  his  Son.   [Standard 

Edition.     6  vols.] 

II.    ADDITIONAL  READING 

1.  From  Authors  already  mentioned 

Carlyle.     Sartor  Resartus,  entire. 

Essays :  Characteristics,  Johnson,  Voltaire,  On 

the  Study  of  History. 
The  French  Revolution. 


COURSE  V  103 

On  Heroes  and  Hero-Worship :  The  Hero  as 
Prophet  —  Mahomet ;  as  Priest  —  Luther, 
Knox ;  as  King  —  Cromwell. 

Past  and  Present. 

Shooting  Niagara  —  and  After. 
Ruskin.     Modern  Painters,  Part  III :  Of  Ideas  of 

Beauty.     Part  IV,  Chapter  XVII :  The  Moral 

of  Landscape.     Part  V,  Chapters  XIX,  XX : 

The   Mountain   Gloom,  The  Mountain  Glory. 

Part  VI,  Chapters  VIII,  IX,  X :  Leaf  Monu- 
ments, Leaf  Shadows,  Leaves  Motionless. 

Crown  of  Wild  Olive,  entire. 

Munera  Pulveris. 

Lectures  on  Art. 

Fors  Clavigera,  Letters  I,  V,  VIII,  IX. 
Arnold.     1.  Poems:  Resignation. 

The  Sick  King  in  Bokhara. 

To  Margaret,  "  Yes,  in  the  sea  of  life  enisled." 

Philomela. 

Epilogue  to  Lessing's  Laocoon. 

The  Buried  Life. 

The  Scholar-Gipsy. 

Memorial  Verses. 

Heine's  Grave. 
2.  Prose:  Culture  and  Anarchy,  entire. 

Essays:  Equality,  Falkland  [Mixed  Essays]; 
The  Function  of  Criticism  [Essays  in  Criti- 
cism, First  Series];  The  Study  of  Poetry, 
Wordsworth  [Essays  in  Criticism,  Second 
Series];  Literature  and  Science,  Emerson 
[Discourses  in  America]. 


104  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

Browning.     Dramas  :  Pippa  Passes! 

The  Blot  in  the  'Scutcheon. 

Colombe's  Birthday. 

A  Soul's  Tragedy. 
Dramatic  Monologues,  Narrative  Poems,  Lyrics 

Fra  Lippo  Lippi. 

Soliloquy  of  the  Spanish  Cloister. 

By  the  Fireside. 

Dis  Aliter  Visum. 

Two  in  the  Campagna. 

Evelyn  Hope. 

The  Bishop  orders  his  Tomb  at  St.  Praxed's. 

Bishop  Blougram's  Apology. 

James  Lee's  Wife. 

Cleon. 

A  Death  in  the  Desert. 

The  Statue  and  the  Bust. 

The  Grammarian's  Funeral. 

The  Flight  of  the  Duchess. 

Herve  Riel. 

Pheidippides. 

May  and  Death. 

One  Way  of  Love. 

At  the  Mermaid. 

The  Wall  (Prologue  to  Pacchiarotto). 

Never  the  Time  and  the  Place. 

Summum  Bonum. 

Epilogue  to  Asolando. 
Tennyson.     A  Dream  of  Fair  Women. 

The  Miller's  Daughter. 

M  Break,  break,  break." 


COURSE  V  105 

The  Vision  of  Sin. 
The  Princess. 
Maud. 

In  Memoriam,  entire. 
Ode  on  the  Death  of  Wellington. 
Idylls  of  the  King :  The  Coming  of  Arthur,  Lance- 
lot and  Elaine,  The  Holy  Grail,  Guinevere. 
The  Northern  Farmer. 
The  Northern  Farmer,  new  style. 
Rizpah. 

"  Low,  my  lute  !  "     (Song  in  Queen  Mary.) 
Wages. 

The  Ancient  Sage. 
The  Higher  Pantheism. 
The  Making  of  Man. 

2.  From  Contemporary  Authors 

Elizabeth  Barrett  Browning.     18 09-1861. 
Rhyme  of  the  Duchess  May. 
Lady  Geraldine's  Courtship. 
The  Cry  of  the  Children. 
The  Cry  of  the  Human. 
Casa  Guidi  Windows. 
Poems  to  Robert  Browning : 
Life  and  Love. 
A  Denial. 

Proof  and  Disproof. 
Question  and  Answer. 
Inclusion. 
Insufficiency. 
Sonnets  from  the  Portuguese. 


106  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

Arthur  Hugh  Clough.     1819-1861.. 

Qua  Cursum  Ventus. 

The  New  Sinai. 

Qui  laborat,  orat. 

"  It  fortifies  my  soul  to  know." 

"  Through  a  glass  darkly." 

Easter  Day. 

Dipsychus. 

The  Questioning  Spirits. 

Bethesda. 

The  New  Decalogue. 

The  Stream  of  Life. 

The  Bothie  of  Tober-na-Vuolich. 

"  Say  not  the  struggle  nought  availeth." 
Da nte  Gabriel  Rossetti.     1828-1882. 

The  White  Ship. 

The  King's  Tragedy. 

My  Sister's  Sleep. 

The  Blessed  Damozel. 

The  Portrait. 

Ave. 

Eden  Bower. 
William  Morris.     1834-1896. 

The  Defence  of  Guinevere. 

The  Haystack  in  the  Floods. 

Summer  Dawn. 
From  the  Earthly  Paradise : 

The  Apology,  The  Man  Born  to  be  King,  The 
Watching  of  the  Falcon,  The  Land  East  of 
the  Sun  and  West  of  the  Moon,  The  Ring 
given  to  Venus,  The  Hill  of  Venus. 


COURSE  V  I07 

L'Envoi. 

The  Half  of  Life  Gone. 
The  Day  is  Dawning. 
All  for  the  Cause. 

Thomas  Babington  Macaulay.     1 800-1859- 
Essays :  Lord  Byron. 
Samuel  Johnson. 
Sir  William  Temple. 
Lord  Clive. 
Joseph  Addison. 
Life  of  William  Pitt  (the  younger). 

John  Hew y  Newman.     1801-1890. 
From  Plain  and  Parochial  Sermons : 
A  Record  of  Human  Sorrow.     [Vol.  I.] 
The  Mind  of  Little  Children.     [Vol.  I.] 
The  Danger  of  Accomplishments.     [Vol.  II.] 
Tears   of    Christ   at   the    Grave   of    Lazarus. 

[Vol.  III.] 
The  Invisible  World.     [Vol.  IV.] 
The  Greatness  and  Littleness  of  Human  Life. 

[Vol.  IV.] 
Unreal  Words.     [Vol.  V.] 
The  Lapse  of  Time.     [Vol.  VII.] 
The  Season  of  Epiphany.     [Vol.  VII.] 
The  Vanity  of  Human  Glory.     [Vol.  VIII.] 
.  From  Oxford  University  Sermons  : 

The    Theory   of    Developments    in    Religious 
Doctrines. 
From  Sermons  on  Subjects  of  the  Day : 
The  Parting  of  Friends. 


108  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

III.    SELECT  WORKS  OF  REFERENCE 

GENERAL  LITERARY  HISTORY  AND  CHARACTERISTICS 

Edward  Dowden.  i.  The  Transcendental  Move- 
ment in  Literature  :  the  Scientific  Movement  in 
Literature.     [Studies  in  Literature,  1789-1877. 

.878.] 

2.  Victorian  Literature.  [Transcripts  and  Studies. 
1888.] 

Alfred  Austin.     The  Poetry  of  the  Period.     1870. 

Justin  McCarthy.  History  of  Our  Own  Time. 
Chapters  XXIX,  LXVII.     1880. 

Frederic  Harrison.  A  Few  Words  about  the  Nine- 
teenth Century.  1882.  [The  Choice  of  Books, 
and  other  essays.] 

E.  C.  Stedman.  Victorian  Poets.  Revised  edition. 
1887. 

/  A.  Symonds.  A  Comparison  of  Elizabethan  and 
Victorian  Literature.  [Essays  Speculative  and 
Suggestive,  Vol.  II.     1890.] 

Mis.  [M.  O.]  Oliphant.  The  Victorian  Age  of  Eng- 
lish Literature.     2  vols.     1892. 

J.  W.  Hales.    Victorian  Literature.    [Folia  Literaria. 

1893.] 
Frederic  Harrison.     Characteristics  of  Victorian  Lit- 
erature.    [Early  Victorian  Literature.     1896.] 
G.  Saintsbury.     1.  History  of  Nineteenth  Century 
Literature,  1 780-1895.     1896. 
2.  Corrected   Impressions.     Essays  on  Victorian 
Writers.     1895. 


COURSE  V  109 

Vida  D.  Scudder.     The  Life  of  the  Spirit  in  Modern 

English  Poets.     1896. 
Hugh  Walker.      The    Age    of    Tennyson.     1896. 

[Handbooks  of  English  Literature.] 
William  M.  Payne.     The  Greater  English  Poets  of 

the  Nineteenth  Century.     1907. 

CARLYLE 
1.  Biographical 

Richard  Garnett.  Life.  1887.  [Great  Writers 
Series.]     (The  best  brief  sketch.) 

John  Nichol.  Thomas  Carlyle.  1892.  [English 
Men  of  Letters  Series.] 

Thomas  Carlyle.  1.  Reminiscences.  Edited  by 
Charles  Eliot  Norton.     1887. 

2.  Early  Letters,  181 4- 1826.     Edited  by  Charles 

Eliot  Norton.     1886. 

3.  Letters,  1 826-1 836.     Edited  by  Charles  Eliot 

Norton.     1889. 

4.  Correspondence  of  Carlyle  and  Emerson.  Edited 

by  Charles  Eliot  Norton.     2  vols.     1883. 

5.  Correspondence  between  Goethe  and  Carlyle. 

Edited  by  Charles  Eliot  Norton.     1887. 

6.  Letters  of   Carlyle   to    His   Youngest    Sister. 

Edited    by    Charles    Townsend    Copeland. 
1899. 
Jane  Welsh  Carlyle.     1.  Letters  and  Memorials  of. 
Edited  by  J.  A.  Froude.     2  vols.     1883. 
2.  Early  Letters  of  Jane  Welsh  Carlyle.     Edited 
by  David  G.  Ritchie.     1889. 


HO  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

3.  New   Letters   and   Memorials  of   Jane  Welsh 

Carlyle.     Annotated  by  Thomas  Carlyle  and 
edited  by  Alexander  Carlyle.     2  vols.    1903. 

4.  The  Love  Letters  of  Thomas  Carlyle  and  Jane 

Welsh.    Edited  by  Alexander  Carlyle.    2  vols. 

1909. 

J.  A.  Froude.     1.  Thomas  Carlyle :  A  History  of  the 

First  Forty  Years  of  His  Life.     2  vols.     1882. 

2.  Thomas   Carlyle:    A   History  of   His  Life  in 

London,  183 4-1 881.     2  vols.    1884. 

Mrs.  Alexander  Ireland.    Life  of  Jane  Welsh  Carlyle. 

1891. 
F.  Espinasse.     Literary  Recollections,  including  the 
Carlyles  and  a  Segment  of  Their  Circle.     1893. 
D.  Wilson.     Mr.  Froude  and  Carlyle.     1898. 

2.  Personal  and  Literary  Criticism 

Joseph  Mazzini.  On  the  Genius  and  Tendency  of 
the  Writings  of  Carlyle.  1844.  [Writings, 
Vol.  IV,  or,  Essays,  "  Camelot  Series."] 
James  Martineau.  Personal  Influences  on  Our  Present 
Theology.  1856.  [Essays,  Philosophical  and 
Theological,  Vol.  L] 
A.  H.  Japp.     Three  Great  Teachers  of  Our  Own 

Time  —  Carlyle,  Tennyson,  Ruskin.     1865. 

John  Morley.    Carlyle.    1870.    [Miscellanies,  Vol.  I.] 

J.F.Lowell.  Carlyle.  [My  Study  Windows.   187 1.] 

William  Minto.    Carlyle.    [Manual  of  English  Prose 

-  '  Writers.     1872.]     (A  detailed  examination  of 

Carlyle's  style.) 


COURSE  V  III 

Peter  Bayne.     Lessons  from  My  Masters  —  Carlyle, 

Tennyson,  and  Ruskin.     1879. 
Edwin  D.  Mead.  The  Philosophy  of  Carlyle.   1881. 
J.  C.  Shairp.  Prose  Poets  —  Carlyle.   [Some  Aspects 

of  Poetry.     1882.] 
John  Tulloch.  Thomas  Carlyle  as  a  Religious  Teacher. 

[Movements  of  Religious  Thought  in  Britain. 

1885.] 

David  Masson.  Carlyle,  Personally  and  in  His 
Writings.     1885. 

Frederic  Harrison.  Froude's  Life  of  Carlyle.  1885. 
[The  Choice  of  Books,  and  other  essays.] 

A.  Birrell.     Carlyle.     [Obiter  Dicta,  Vol.  I.    1885.] 

John  Burroughs.    1 .  In  Carlyle's  Country  :  A  Sunday 
in  Cheyne  Row.     [Fresh  Fields.     1885.] 
2.  Emerson  and  Carlyle.   [Indoor  Studies.    1889.] 

K.  H.  Hutton.  Thomas  Carlyle.  [Modern  Guides 
of  English  Thought  in  Matters  of  Faith.   1887.] 

Matthew  Arnold.  Emerson.  [Addresses  in  America. 
1889.]     (Contains  an  estimate  of  Carlyle.) 

Ewald  Flilgel.  The  Moral  and  Religious  Develop- 
ment of  Thomas  Carlyle.  Translated  by  Miss 
J.  G.  Tyler.     1891. 

E.  Scherer.  Thomas  Carlyle.  [Essays  on  English 
Literature.  Translated  by  George  Saintsbury. 
1891] 

Frederic  Harrison.  Thomas  Carlyle.  [Early  Vic- 
torian Writers.     1895.] 

G.  Saintsbury.  Thomas  Carlyle.  [Corrected  Im- 
pressions.    1895.] 


112  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

W.  C.  Brownell.  Carlyle.  [Victorian  Prose  Mas- 
ters.    1 90 1.] 

Paul  Elmer  More.  The  Spirit  of  Carlyle.  [Shel- 
burne  Essays,  First  Series.     1905.] 

G.  K.  Chesterton.  Thomas  Carlyle.  [Varied  Types. 
1909.] 

Frederic  W.  Roe.  Carlyle  as  a  Critic  of  Literature. 
1910. 

RUSKIN 
1.  Biographical 

Frederic  Harrison.  John  Ruskin.  [English  Men 
of  Letters  S  eries .   1902.]  (  Best  brief  biography . ) 

/.  Ruskin.  Praeterita:  Scenes  of  My  Past  Life. 
1886-1888.  (Ruskin  finally  gave  up  the  Prae- 
terita in  June,  1889,  with  the  fourth  chapter  of 
the  third  volume.  He  had  carried  the  story  of 
his  life  only  down  to  about  1865.) 

W.  G.  Collingwood.  The  Life  and  Work  of  John 
Ruskin.  2  vols.  1893.  (This,  though  not  quite 
satisfactory,  is  the  best  life  thus  far  written.) 

Mrs.  A.  T.  Ritchie.  Records  of  Tennyson,  Ruskin, 
Browning.     1891. 

M.  H.  Spielman.  John  Ruskin.  A  Sketch  of  His  Life, 
Works,  Opinions.  1900.  (A  hasty  but  sympathetic 
sketch  published  shortly  after  Ruskin's  death.) 

Ada  Earland.     Ruskin  and  His  Circle.     1909. 

Arthur  C.  Benson.  John  Ruskin.  A  Study  in 
Personality.     1 9 1 1 . 


COURSE  V  113 


2.  Critical 


A.  H.Japp.     Three  Great  Teachers  of  Our  Time 

—  Carlyle,  Tennyson,  Ruskin.     1865. 
Peter  Bayne.    Lessons  from  My  Masters  —  Carlyle, 

Tennyson,  and  Ruskin.     1879. 
Patrick   Geddes.     John    Ruskin,  Economist.     [The 

Round  Table  Series.    Edited  by  H.  B.  Baildon. 

1887.] 
Vida  D.  Scudder.     Introduction  to  the  Writings  of 

John  Ruskin.    1890. 
/.  M.  Mather.  John  Ruskin  :  His  Life  and  Teaching. 

Fourth  edition.     1892. 
Charles  Waldstein.    The  Work  of  John  Ruskin.    Its 

Influence    upon    Modern    Thought    and    Life. 

1893. 
/.  A.  Hobson.  John  Ruskin,  Social  Reformer.    1898. 

(Best  exposition  of  Ruskin 's  social  and  economic 

teaching.) 
G.   Saint sbury.     Ruskin.     [Corrected    Impressions. 

i895-] 

W.  J.  Stillman.  John  Ruskin.  [The  Old  Rome  and 
the  New,  and  other  studies.     .1898.] 

R.  De  La  Sizeranne.  Ruskin  and  the  Religion  of 
Beauty.  Translated  by  the  Countess  of  Gal- 
loway.    1899. 

Frederic  Harrison.     1.  Ruskin  as  Master  of  Prose. 

2.  Ruskin  as  Prophet. 

3.  Ruskin's      Eightieth      Birthday.       [Tennyson, 

Ruskin,  Mill,  and  other  essays.     1900.] 


114  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

Mrs.  [Alice]  Meynell.  John  Ruskin.  1900.  [Modern 
English  Writers.] 

W.  C.  Brownell.  Ruskin.  [Victorian  Prose  Masters. 
1901.] 

Leslie  Stephen.  John  Ruskin.  [Studies  of  a  Biog- 
rapher.   Vol.  III.     1902.] 

ARNOLD 
1.  Biographical 

Frederic  Harrison.  Matthew  Arnold.  [English  Men 
of  Letters  Series.    1902.]   (Best  brief  biography.) 

G.   W.  E.  Russell.     Matthew  Arnold.     1904. 

Matthew  Arnold.  Letters,  1848- 1888.  Collected 
and  arranged  by  W.  E.  Russell.    2  vols.   1895. 

G.  Saintsbury.  Matthew  Arnold.  1899.  (Rather 
a  critical  estimate  than  a  biography,  and  shows 
at  many  points  more  assurance  than  sympathy.) 

2.  Critical 

Arthur  Hugh  Clough.     Review  of  Some  Poems  by 

Mr.  Arnold.     1853.     [Prose  Remains.] 
A.  C.  Swinburne.     Matthew  Arnold :  New  Poems. 

[Essays  and  Studies.     1876.] 
R.  H  Hutton.     1.  The  Poetry  of  Matthew  Arnold. 

[Essays,     Theological    and    Literary,    Vol.  II. 

Second  edition.     1877.] 
2.  Matthew  Arnold.     [Modern  Guides  of  English 
Thought  in  Matters  of  Faith.     1887.] 
Frederic   Harrison.     Culture :    A    Dialogue.     [The 

Choice  of  Books,  and  other  essays.] 


COURSE  V  115 

John  Burroughs.  Matthew  Arnold's  Criticism:  Ar- 
nold's View  of  Emerson  and  Carlyle.  [Indoor 
Studies.    1887.] 

Joseph  Jacobs.  George  Eliot,  Matthew  Arnold, 
Browning,  Newman.     1891. 

A.  Birrell.  Matthew  Arnold.  [Res  Judicatae.    1892.] 

G.  Saintsbury.  Matthew  Arnold.  [Corrected  Im- 
pressions.    1895.] 

Leslie  Stephen.  Matthew  Arnold.  [Studies  of  a  Biog- 
rapher.    Vol.  II.     1899.] 

Lewis  E.  Gates.  Matthew  Arnold.  [Three  Studies 
in  Literature.     1899.] 

G.  E.  Woodberry.  Matthew  Arnold.  [Makers  of 
Literature.     1900.] 

Frederic  Harrison.  Matthew  Arnold.  [Tennyson, 
Ruskin,  Mill,  and  other  essays.     1900.] 

W.  C.  Brownell.  Matthew  Arnold.  [Victorian  Prose 
Masters.     1901.] 

Richard  Garnett.  Matthew  Arnold.  [Essays  of  an 
Ex-Librarian.     1 9  o  1 .] 

William  H.  Dawson.  Matthew  Arnold  and  His  Re- 
lation to  the  Thought  of  Our  Time.     1904. 

Stopford  A.  Brooke.  Matthew  Arnold.  [Four  Vic- 
torian Poets.     1908.] 

BROWNING 

1.  Biographical  and  Bibliographical 

Edward  Dow  den.  Robert  Browning.  [Temple  Biog- 
raphies.]    (Best  brief  life.) 
William  S/tarp.  Life.   [Great  Writers  Series.    1890.] 


Il6  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

Mrs.  Sutherland  Orr.     Life   and  Letters.     2  vols. 

1891. 
Robert  Browning.  The  Letters  of  Robert  Browning 

and  Elizabeth  Barrett.     2  vols.     1899. 
Edward  Dowden.     Robert  Browning.     1904. 
Mrs.  A.  T.  Ritchie.    Records  of  Tennyson,  Ruskin, 

Browning.     1892. 
Elisabeth  L.  Carey.   Browning,  Poet  and  Man.   1899. 
G.  K.  Chesterton.   Robert  Browning.    [English  Men 

of  Letters  Series.     1903.] 
W.  Hall  Griffin  and  H.  C.  Minchin.     The  Life  of 

Robert  Browning,  with  Notices  of  His  Writings, 

His  Family,  and  His  Friends.     19 10. 
Mrs.  Sutherland  Orr.    A  Hand- Book  to  the  Works 

of  Robert  Browning.     Third  edition.     1887. 
G.  W.  Cooke.   A  Guide-Book  to  the  Works  of  Robert 

Browning.     1891. 

2.  Critical 

Walter  Bagehot.  Wordsworth,  Tennyson,  and 
Browning;  or,  Pure,  Ornate,  and  Grotesque 
Art  in  English  Poetry.  1864.  [Literary  Studies, 
Vol.  II.] 

R.  II  Hutton.  Browning.  [Essays,  Theological 
and  Literary,  Vol.  II.    Second  edition.     1877.] 

Edward  Dowden.  1.  Mr.  Tennyson  and  Mr. 
Browning.    [Studies  in  Literature,  1 789-1877. 

•  1878.] 

2.  Mr.  Browning's     Sordello.     [Transcripts    and 
Studies.     1888.] 


COURSE  V  117 

A.  Birrell.       On    the    Alleged    Obscurity   of   Mr. 

Browning's  Poetry.   [Obiter  Dicta.  First  Series. 

1884.] 
Hiram  Corson.     An  Introduction  to  the  Study  of 

Browning's  Poetry.     1886. 
Roden  Noel.    Robert  Browning.    [Essays  on  Poetry 

and  Poets.     1886.] 
Arthur  Symons.     An  Introduction  to  the  Study  of 

Browning.     Second  edition.     1887. 
James  Fotheringham.   Studies  in  the  Poetry  of  Robert 

Browning.     Second  edition.     1888. 
IV.  J.  Alexander.     An  Introduction  to  the  Poetry  of 

Robert  Browning.     1889. 
Edward  Berdoe.    Browning's  Message  to  His  Time. 

1890. 
/.  J.  Nettleship.  Essays  on  Robert  Browning's  Poetry. 

New  edition.     1890. 
G.  E.  Woodberry.    On  Browning's  Death.    [Studies 

in  Letters  and  Life.     1890.] 
Joseph  Jacobs.     George     Eliot,     Matthew     Arnold, 

Browning,  Newman.     189 1. 
Henry  Jones.       Browning    as    a    Philosophical    and 

Religious  Teacher.     1891. 
W.  J.  Dawson.       Robert     Browning.     [Makers    of 

Modern  English.      1891.] 
Hamilton  Mabie.     Robert    Browning.     [Essays    in 

Literary  Interpretation.     1892.] 
Edward  Berdoe.     Browning    Studies.     Papers    by 

Members  of  the  Browning  Society.     Edited  by 

Edward  Berdoe.     1895. 


Ii8  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

G.  Saintsbury.    Browning.    [Corrected  Impressions. 

i895-] 
Vida  D.  Scudder.      Browning  as  Humorist.     [The 

Life  of  the  Spirit  in  Modern  English    Poets. 

1896.] 
/  /  Chapman.     Robert  Browning.     [Emerson  and 

other  Essays.     1898.] 
Stopford  A.  Brooke.  The  Poetry  of  Browning.   1902. 
Leslie  Stephen.     The    Browning    Letters.     [Studies 

of  a  Biographer.     Vol.  III.     1902.] 
Frank  C.  Lockwood.     Modern  Poets  and  Christian 

Teaching.     Robert  Browning.     1906. 
William  R.  Inge.      The    Mysticism    of    Browning. 

[Studies  of  English  Mystics.     1906.] 

TENNYSON 
1.  Biographical 

Alfred  Lyall.     Tennyson.    [English  Men  of  Letters 

Series.     1902.] 
Hallam    Tennyson.      Alfred,    Lord    Tennyson.     A 

Memoir   by    His    Son.     2  vols.     1897.     (The 

standard  life,  and  so  excellent  that  it  can  hardly 

be  replaced  by  any  other.) 
W.  E.  Wace.       Alfred    Tennyson :    His    Life   and 

Works.     1 88 1. 
Mrs.  Anne  Thackeray  Ritchie.      Alfred  Tennyson. 

1883.     (Prefixed  to    Harper's    edition  of   his 

works,  and  reprinted  in  Records  of  Tennyson, 

Ruskin,  Browning. 


COURSE  V  119 

H.  J.  Jennings.      Lord    Tennyson.    A  Biographical 

Sketch.     1884. 
Arthur*  Waugh.    Alfred,  Lord  Tennyson.    A  Study 

of  Kis  Life  and  Work.     1892. 
Elisabeth  L.  Carey.     Tennyson :   His    Homes,  His 

Friends,  His  Work.     1898. 
H.  D.  Rawnsley.     Memories    of   the    Tennysons. 

1900. 
Agnes  G.   Weld.     (A  niece  of  the  poet.)     Glimpses 

of  Tennyson.     1903. 

2.  Critical 

Charles  Kingsley.  Tennyson.  1850.  [Works, 
Vol.  XX.] 

George  Brimley.  Tennyson's  Poems.  1855.  [Essays.] 

Walter  Bagehot.  Wordsworth,  Tennyson,  and 
Browning;  or,  Pure,  Ornate,  and  Grotesque 
Art  in  English  Poetry.  1864.  [Literary  Studies, 
Vol.  II.] 

R.  H.  Hutton.  Tennyson.  [Essays,  Theological 
and  Literary,  Vol.  II.     1877.] 

Edward  Dowden.  Mr.  Tennyson  and  Mr.  Browning. 
[Studies  in  Literature,  1 789-1877.     1878.] 

Peter  Bayne.  Lessons  from  My  Masters  —  Carlyle, 
Tennyson,  Ruskin.     1879. 

W.  E.  Gladstone.  Tennyson.  [Gleanings  of  Past 
Years.     1879.] 

J.  F.  Ge?iu?ig.  Tennyson's  In  Memoriam :  Its  Pur- 
pose and  Structure.     1884. 


120  ENGLISH   LITERATURE 

G.   W.  Cooke.     Tennyson.     [Poets    and    Problems. 

1886.] 

Roden  Noel.  Tennyson.  [Essays  on  Poetry  and 
Poets.     1886.] 

A.  C.  Swifiburne.  Tennyson  and  Musset.  [Mis- 
cellanies.    1886.] 

J.  M.  Robertson.  The  Art  of  Tennyson.  [Essays 
toward  a  Critical  Method.     1889.] 

Henry  Van  Dyke.  The  Poetry  of  Tennyson.  Re- 
vised edition.     1891. 

W.  J.  Dawson.  Tennyson.  [Makers  of  Modern 
English.     189 1.] 

J.  C.  Walters.  Tennyson,  Poet,  Philosopher,  Idealist. 
1893. 

M.  'IV.  Maecallum.  Tennyson's  Idylls  of  the  King 
and  Arthurian  Story.     1894. 

Stopford  A.  Brooke.  Tennyson  :  His  Art  and  Rela- 
tion to  Modern  Life.  1894.  (The  ablest  study 
of  the  work  of  Tennyson  that  has  yet  appeared.) 

G.  Saintsbury.    Tennyson.    [Corrected  Impressions. 

1895-] 
Leslie  Stephen.     The  Life  of  Tennyson.     [Studies  of 

a  Biographer.     Vol.  II.     1899.] 

W.  P.  Trent.  Tennyson  and  Musset  once  more. 
[The  Authority  of  Criticism,  and  other  essays. 
1899.] 

Frederic  Harrison.  Tennyson.  [Tennyson,  Ruskin, 
Mill.      1900.] 


COURSE  V  121 

E.  H.  Sneath.      The    Mind    of    Tennyson.      His 

Thoughts    on    God,     Freedom,    Immortality. 
1900. 

Herbert  Paul.  The  Classical  Poems  of  Tennyson. 
[Men  and  Letters.     1901.] 

MRS.  BROWNING 

/  H.  Ingram.  Elizabeth  Barrett  Browning.  1888. 
[Famous*  Women  Series.] 

Mrs.  Sutherland  Orr.  Life  of  Robert  Browning. 
1 89 1.  (Mentioned  above.  Contains  much 
information  with  reference  to  the  later  years 
of  Mrs.  Browning.) 

F.  G.  Kenyon.     The  Letters  of  Elizabeth   Barrett 

Browning.     Edited,  with  biographical  additions, 
by  Frederic  G.  Kenyon.     2  vols.     1897. 

CLOUGH 

1.  Biographical 

\F.  T.  Palgrave  ?]  Memoir.  Prefixed  to  the  Prose 
Remains  of  Arthur  Hugh  Clough.  Edited  by 
His  Wife.  1888.  (Most  trustworthy  sketch  of 
his  life.) 

S.  Waddington.  Arthur  Hugh  Clough :  A  Mono- 
graph.    1883. 

/  C.  Shairp.  Arthur  Hugh  Clough.  [Portraits  of 
Friends.  1889.]  (Mostly  included  in  the 
Memoir  mentioned  above.) 


122  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 


2. 'Critical 


Walter    Bagehot.      Mr.    Clough's    Poems.      1862. 

[Literary  Studies,  Vol.  II.] 
R.  H.  Hutton.     Arthur    Hugh    Clough.     [Essays, 

Theological    and    Literary,    Vol.   II.      Second 

edition.     1877.] 

ROSSETTI 
1.  Biographical 

Arthur  C.  Benson.  Rossetti.  [English  Men  of 
Letters  Series.    1904.]     (Best  brief  life.) 

Joseph  Knight.     Life.    [Great  Writers  Series.    1887.] 

William  Sharp.  Dante  Gabriel  Rossetti.  A  Record 
and  a  Study.     1882. 

T.  Hall  Caine.     Recollections  of  Rossetti.     1898. 

W.  M.  Rossetti.  1.  Dante  Gabriel  Rossetti.  His 
Family  Letters.  With  Memoir.  2  vols.  1895. 
2.  Ruskin,  Rossetti,  Pre-Raphaelitism.  Papers, 
1854-1861.     1899. 

2.  Personal  and  Literary  Criticism 

A.  C.  Swinburne.  Poems  of  Dante  Gabriel  Rossetti. 
[Essays  and  Studies.     1876.] 

F.  W.  H.  Myers.  Rossetti  and  the  Religion  of 
Beauty.     [Essays,  Modern.     1885.] 

Walter  Pater.  Dante  Gabriel  Rossetti.  [Apprecia- 
tions.    1889.] 

Hamilton  Mabie.  The  Poetry  of  Dante  Gabriel 
Rossetti.  [Essays  in  Literary  Interpretation. 
1892.] 


COURSE  V  123 

Stopford  A.  Brooke.  Dante  Gabriel  Rossetti.  [Four 
Victorian  Poets.     1908.] 

Esther  Wood.  Dante  Rossetti  and  the  Pre- 
Raphaelite  Movement.     1894. 

MORRIS 

J.  W.  Mackail.  The  Life  of  William  Morris.  2  vols. 
1899. 

A.  C.  Swinburne.  The  Life  and  Death  of  Jason. 
[Essays  and  Studies.     1876.] 

G.  Saints  bury.  William  Morris.  [Corrected  Im- 
pressions.    1895.] 

Walter  Pater.  Aesthetic  Poetry.  [Appreciations. 
1889.] 

Andrew  Lang.  Mr.  Morris's  Poems.  [Adventures 
among  Books.     1905.] 

Stopford  A.  Brooke.  William  Morris.  [Four  Vic- 
torian Poets.     1908.] 

MACAULAY 

T.  Cotter  Morison.     Life.     1882.     [English  Men  of 

Letters  Series.]     (An  excellent  short  life.) 
G.  O.  Trevelyan.     Life  and  Letters.     2  vols.     1876. 

(The  standard  life.) 
Walter  Bagehot.       Thomas     Babington     Macaulay. 

1856.     [Literary  Studies,  Vol.  II.] 
William  Minto.      Macaulay's     Style.     [Manual     of 

English  Prose  Literature.     1872.]     (A  detailed 

study  of  Macaulay's  style.) 


124  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

John  Morley.  Macaulay.  1877.  [Miscellanies, 
Vol.  I.] 

W.  E.  Gladstone.  Macaulay.  [Gleanings  of  Past 
Years.     1879.] 

Frederic  Harrison.  Lord  Macaulay.  [Early  Vic- 
torian Writers.     1895.] 

G.  Saintsbury.     [Corrected  Impressions.     1895.] 

Henry  D.  Sedgwick.  Macaulay.  [Essays  on  Great 
Writers.     1903.] 

NEWMAN 

William  Barry.  Cardinal  Newman.  [Literary  Lives 
Series.  1904.]  (Best  brief  life  by  a  Catholic 
biographer.) 

R.  H.  Hutton.  Cardinal  Newman.  1891.  (Best 
brief  life  by  a  Protestant  biographer.) 

/.  H.  Newman.     Apologia  pro  Vita  Sua.     1864. 

James  Martineau.  Personal  Influences  on  Our 
Present  Theology.  1856.  [Essays,  Philo- 
sophical and  Theological,  Vol.  I.] 

W.  S.  Lilly.     Characteristics.     1875. 

/  C.  Shairp.  Prose  Poets  —  Cardinal  Newman. 
[Aspects  of  Poetry.     1882.] 

T.  Mozley.  Reminiscences  of  Oriel  College  and  the 
Oxford  Movement.     2  vols.     1882. 

/.  A.  Froude.     1 .  Father  Newman  on  the  Grammar 

of  Assent.     [Short  Studies  on  Great  Subjects. 

Second  Series.     1872.] 

2.  The     Oxford     Counter-Reformation.      [Short 

Studies  on  Great  Subjects.     Fourth  Series. 

1883.] 


COURSE  V  125 

John  Tulloch.  The  Oxford  or  Anglo-Catholic 
Movement.  [Movements  of  Religious  Thought 
in    Britain    during    the    Nineteenth    Century. 

1885.] 

R.  H.  Hutton.    Cardinal  Newman.    [Modern  Guides 

of  English  Thought  in  Matters  of  Faith.     1887.] 
Wilfrid  Ward.     William    George    Ward    and    the 

Oxford  Movement.     1889. 
R.  W  Church.    The  Oxford  Movement,  1837-1845. 

1890. 
Joseph  Jacobs.      George     Eliot,     Matthew     Arnold, 

Browning,  Newman.     189 1. 
Lewis  E.  Gates.     Newman    as    a    Prose    Writer. 

[Three  Studies  in  Literature.     1899.] 


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TEST  QUESTIONS 


The  following  questions  are  taken  from  examination 
papers  set  at  various  times  to  college  classes.  They  cover 
but  a  part  of  the  reading  assigned  in  the  shorter  courses ; 
and  they  are  intended  only  to  suggest  to  the  reader  sev- 
eral kinds  of  questions  by  which  he  may  test  his  under- 
standing of  what  he  has  read,  his  memory  of  it,  or  his 
appreciation  of  it.  They  presuppose  on  the  part  of  the 
student  an  intelligent  and  thoughtful  reading  of  the 
works  assigned,  rather  than  any  minute  or  extended 
study  of  them. 

ON  COURSE  I 

I.  The  Drama. 

i.  State  briefly  the  relation  of  the  Mysteries  and  Moralities  to 
the  Early  English  Drama. 

2.  The  first  London  theaters,  — when  and  where  built?    Early 

stage  representation.  Results  of  the  lack  of  scenic  appli- 
ances upon  the  style  of  the  early  dramatists.  Reasons  of 
the  Puritan  opposition  to  the  stage,  —  how  far  just  ? 

3.  What  is  a  drama  ?  What  are  the  unities  ?  Which  did  Shake- 

speare observe  ?  What  is  the  essential  difference  between 
tragedy  and  comedy  ?  How  does  Shakespeare  unite  tragic 
and  comic  elements  in  the  same  play  ?  With  good  effect, 
or  the  opposite  ?  Cite  Milton's  opinion  upon  this  point, 
from  the  preface  to  Samson  Agonistes. 
'33 


134  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

II.  Marlowe. 

i.  Briefly  set  down  such  important  facts  of  his  history  as  are 
known. 

2.  Where  did  he  find  the  legend  of  Doctor  Faustus  ? 

3.  Compare  the  structure  of  the  play  with  that  of  one  of  Shake- 

speare's tragedies. 

4.  What  is  the  ruling  motive  in  the  character  of  Doctor  Faustus, 

and  how  does  the  character  resemble  that  of  Marlowe 
himself  ? 

5.  Characterize  Marlowe's  imagination  and  cite  two  passages 

that  well  exemplify  it. 

III.  Shakespeare  —  Henry  IV. 

1.  Explain  the  italicized  words  and  phrases  in  the  following 

passages : 

(1)  "Ten  thousand  bold  Scots,  two-and-twenty  knights 
Balked  in  their  own  blood"    (I,  1.) 

(2)  "I '11  make  one;    an  I  do  not,  call  me  villain  and 
baffle  me."    (I,  2.) 

(3)  "  To  laugh  at  gibing  boys,  and  stand  the  push   Of 
every  beardless  vain  comparative."    (Ill,  2.) 

(4)  "  I  have  misused  the  King's  press  damnably."  (IV,  2.) 

2.  Hotspur's  conspiracy,  —  the  occasion,  the  persons,  its  history 

in  outline  until  its  failure. 

3.  Hotspur's  character.    Refer  to  those  passages  in  the  play 

that  most  clearly  illustrate  (1)  his  eagerness  and  heat  of 
temper;  (2)  his  imagination;  (3)  his  affections;  (4)  his 
high  sense  of  honor. 

4.  Why  does  Hotspur  fail  and  Prince  Hal  succeed  ?   Is  not  this 

a  violation  of  our  sympathies  ?  And  are  there  any  dramatic 
ends  served  by  it  ? 

5.  Is  the  change  of  character  in  Prince  Hal  natural,  or  is  it  only 

a  change  of  conduct  ?  Paraphrase  the  explanation  or  apology 
he  makes  to  himself  (I,  2)  for  his  excesses.    Is  it  sincere  ? 

6.  Falstaff  is  a  glutton,  a  sensualist,  a  liar.    Why  then  is  he  not 

disgusting,  but,  on  the  contrary,  interesting  ?  And  if  he  is 
interesting,  is  not  the  art  which  makes  him  so  immoral  ? 


TEST  QUESTIONS  I  35 

IV.  Shakespeare  —  Hamlet. 

1 .  Give  from  memory  an  outline  of  the  third  act. 

2.  Locate  the  following  quotations  : 

( 1 )  "  There  are  more  things  in  heaven  and  earth,  Horatio, 
Than  are  dreamt  of  in  your  philosophy." 

(2)  "  The  time  is  out  of  joint :  O  cursed  spite, 
That  ever  I  was  born  to  set  it  right." 

(3)  "  That  he  is  mad,  't  is  true  ;  't  is  true  't  is  pity, 
And  pity  't  is  't  is  true." 

(4)  "  Lay  not  that  flattering  unction  to  your  soul." 

(5)  "  There  's  a  divinity  that  shapes  our  ends, 
Rough-hew  them  how  we  will." 

3.  Show  how  the  time,  place,  and  circumstances  of  the  opening 

scene  of  the  play  are  adapted  to  put  the  mind  in  the  right 
key  for  what  is  to  follow. 

4.  How  do  you  account  for  the  marked  depression  and  world- 

weariness    that  Hamlet   exhibits   in  his  first  soliloquy  ? 
(I.  2.) 

5.  Explain  Hamlet's  conduct  and  bearing  in  the  interview  with 

Ophelia,  which  she  recounts  to  her  father.    (II,  1.) 

6.  Give  your  idea  of  the  character  of  Polonius,  and  account  for 

Hamlet's  strong  aversion  to  him. 

7.  Contrast  the  three  young  men,  —  Hamlet,  Horatio,  Laertes. 

8.  Comment  upon  the  conduct  and  language  of  Hamlet  in  his 

interview  with  Ophelia.    (Ill,  I.) 

9.  Do  you  think  Hamlet's  alleged  reason  for  not  killing  the 

King  (III,  3)  his  real  reason,  or  only  a  pretext? 

10.  Your  conception  of  the  character  of  the  queen,  with  the 

passages  that  support  it. 

1 1 .  What  is  the  dramatic  purpose  of  the  grave-digger's  scene  ? 

(V,  1.)   Is  not  the  coarse  fooling  of  the  clowns  out  of  keep- 
ing with  the  tragic  dignity  of  the  play  ? 

12.  What,  in  your  opinion,  is  the  weakness  at  the  center  of 

Hamlet's  character,  from  which  the  tragedy  of  his  life 
results  ? 

13.  Aristotle  says  that  tragedy  purifies  the  passions  by  pity  or  by 

fear.    How  is  the  statement  illustrated  by  this  drama  ? 


136  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

V.  Shakespeare  —  Antony  and  Cleopatra. 

1.  What  is  a  tragedy?   And  why  is  the  depiction  of  pain  or 

suffering  in  literature  pleasing  ? 

2.  In  a  great  tragedy  the  catastrophe  must  not  be  ab  extra,  that 

is,  must  not  proceed  from  external  circumstance  or  acci- 
dental cause,  but  from  the  character  of  the  principal  per- 
sons ;  show  that  this  is  true  in  the  play,  pointing  out  espe- 
cially the  faults  in  the  character  of  Antony  that  result 
in  his  ruin,  and  showing  where  in  the  play  those  faults  are 
best  seen. 

3.  On  the  other  hand,  can  there  be  tragedy  when  the  central 

figure  is  a  mere  criminal  receiving  the  punishment  he  de- 
serves ?  What  more  is  required,  and  what  more  is  there 
in  Antony  ? 

4.  The  principal  figures  in  a  drama  are  usually  contrasted  with 

each  other  in  order  to  exhibit  each  more  clearly ;  point 
out  some  striking  contrasts  between  Antony  and  Octavius ; 
between  Cleopatra  and  Octavia. 

5.  Cleopatra.    Is  she  young  ?  Beautiful  ?  In  what  qualities  does 

her  remarkable  fascination  for  Antony  seem  chiefly  to 
reside  ?  Does  she  have  any  real  affection  for  Antony  ? 
Does  Antony  ever  really  trust  her?  (Cite  passages  in 
proof  of  your  opinions  on  all  these  points.) 

6.  Has  Enobarbus  anything  to  do  with  the  main  action  of  the 

play  ?    If  not,  why  is  he  introduced  at  all  ? 

7.  Can  you  offer  any  criticism  upon  the  general  structure  of 

this  play  ? 

8.  This  play  is  sometimes  said  —  for  example,  by  Coleridge  — 

to  be  in  Shakespeare's  noblest  manner ;  cite  five  passages 
that  seem  to  you  especially  noteworthy,  specifying  what 
you  find  in  each — pathos,  passion,  beauty  or  sublimity  of 
image,  music  —  remarkable. 

VI.  Milton. 

1 .  Divide  Milton's  literary  life  into  three  periods  and  name 


his  writings  in  each  period. 
2.  L'Allegro  and  II  Penseroso. 


TEST  QUESTIONS  I  37 

(1)  How  do  they  reflect  Milton's  life  at  the  time  when 
they  were  written  ? 

(2)  Which  of  the  two  poems  do  you  judge  the  more  con- 
genial to  Milton's  temper  ?  And  why  ?  Name  the 
principal  w  delights  "  in  this  one. 

(3)  In  which  is  Shakespeare  referred  to,  and  in  what 
singular  terms  ? 

(4)  What  difference  in  the  metrical  effect  of  the  two 
poems  ? 

3.  The  Masque  of  Comus. 

(1)  What  is  a  masque  ? 

(2)  For  what  occasion  was  the  Comus  written  ?  Where 
and  by  whom  first  enacted  ? 

(3)  What  is  the  real  theme  of  Comus  ?  Cite  any  pas- 
sages obviously  suggested  by  the  condition  of  morals 
and  religion  at  the  time. 

(4)  Cite  from  memory  at  least  three  passages  of  beauti- 
ful and  characteristic  imagery,  and  three  passages 
of  remarkable  melody. 

4.  Lycidas. 

(1)  Occasion  of  it. 

(2)  Quote  or  describe  the  passage  which  refers  espe- 
cially to  the  M  corrupted  clergy,"  and  explain  how  it 
is  connected  with  the  general  theme  of  the  poem. 

5.  Paradise  Lost,  Book  I.  . 

(1)  Give  in  outline  the  argument  of  the  book. 

(2)  The  interest  of  the  first  book  centers  in  Satan.  How 
does  Milton  make  a  character  essentially  evil  so 
impressive  ? 

(3)  Wherein  was  the  general  subject  of  the  Paradise  Lost 
adapted  to  Milton's  type  of  mind  ?  And  in  what  re- 
spects is  such  a  theme  incapable  of  poetic  treatment  ? 

6.  Samson  Agonistes. 

(1)  Is  Samson  a  real  drama  ?    If  not,  why  not? 

(2)  Do  you  agree  with  Milton  in  his  statements  —  in  the 
Introduction  —  about  the  "  error  of  intermixing  comic 
stuff  with  tragic  sadness  "  ? 


138  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

(3)  What  facts  in  the  history  of  Milton  give  special  sig- 
nificance to  the  Samson  ?  Cite  any  passages  which 
have  obvious  reference  to  himself  or  to  his  party. 
How  does  the  poem  end  ? 

(4)  Point  out  some  striking  similarities  and  some  strik- 
ing differences  between  the  Comus  and  the  Samson. 

7.  "  The  Puritan  character  destroys  the  artist,  stiffens  the  man. 
If  a  Milton  springs  up  among  them,  it  is  because  Milton 
.  .  .  passes  beyond  sectarianism.  They  could  have  no 
poet."  —  Taine's  History  of  English  Literature.  M  Milton 
is  not  only  the  highest  but  the  completest  type  of  Puritan.''' 
—  Green's  History  of  the  English  People. 
Which  is  right,  or  nearest  right  ?    And  why  ? 


ON  COURSE  II 
I.  Steele  and  Addison. 

1.  Give  a  brief  sketch  of  Steele's  literary  career,  indicating  his 

relations  to  Addison. 

2.  The  Tatler.    What  was  it  ?    How  often  issued  ?    Indicate  the 

range  of  topics  it  treated  and  the  manner  in  which  they 
were  handled. 

What  qualifications  had  Steele  for  success  in  such  an 
enterprise  ?  And  can  you  point  out  anything  in  the  con- 
dition of  society  in  Queen  Anne's  time  that  made  such  an 
enterprise  successful  ? 

Describe  that  charming  paper  in  which  Steele  recounts 
his  visit  to  an  old  schoolfellow ;  and  compare  this  paper 
—  which  is  in  Steele's  best  vein  —  with  some  of  Addison's 
best  work,  showing  some  characteristic  differences  between 
the  two  men  in  subjects  chosen  and  the  temper  in  which 
they  are  treated. 

3.  The  Spectator.  How  did  it  differ  from  the  Tatler  ?  Addison's 

prose  style  has  been  much  extolled.  What  do  you  under- 
stand to  be  its  specific  merits  ?  Name  some  passages  that 
will  exemplify  these  merits.  How  does  his  style  differ  from 
that  of  Steele  ?  from  that  of  Swift  ? 


TEST  QUESTIONS  1 39 

4.  Cite  from  either  the  Tatler  or  the  Spectator  some  passages 
that  may  illustrate  in  a  striking  way  (1)  the  condition  of 
manners  in  the  Queen  Anne  time,  —  social  custom,  fashion, 
etc. ;  (2)  the  state  of  morals  and  religion ;  (3)  the  taste  of 
the  age  in  art  and  literature. 

II.  Swift. 

1.  His  life  before  17 10.    Set  down  briefly  the  principal  facts 

with  reference  to  his  parentage,  university  career,  rela- 
tions with  Temple,  life  in  Ireland. 

2.  Name  all  his  principal  works  in  order,  stating  briefly  the 

occasion  and  purpose  of  each. 

3.  The  Tale  of  a  Tub  and  the  Argument  against  Abolishing 

Christianity.  Name  the  persons  in  the  Tale  of  a  Tub ; 
sketch  rapidly  the  story  up  to  the  point  when  Peter  turns 
his  brothers  out  of  doors,  explaining  the  satire  as  you 
proceed. 

Outline  the  entire  argument  of  the  paper  on  Abolishing 
Christianity. 

Is  there  anything  in  either  of  these  books  to  cast  sus- 
picion upon  the  religious  sincerity  and  earnestness  of  their 
author  ? 

The  Tale  of  a  Tub  is  accounted  one  of  the  greatest  of 
allegories.  Why  ?  How  does  it  seem  to  you  to  deserve 
its  reputation,  or  to  show  the  genius  of  its  author  ? 

4.  The  Journal  to  Stella.  Where  was  Swift  when  it  was  written  ? 

On  what  business  had  he  come  there  ? 

State  the  principal  facts  with  reference  to  the  great 
party  crisis  of  1 7 1 1,  and  explain  fully  Swift's  conduct  at  that 
time.  Discuss  the  question  whether  that  conduct  proves 
him  to  have  been  a  political  turncoat  or  timeserver. 

Who  was  Stella  ?  Who  was  Vanessa  ?  What  do  you  think 
is  the  nature  of  the  affection  for  Stella  shown  in  the  jour- 
nal ?  What  is  Swift's  own  account  of  his  acquaintance  with 
Vanessa  as  given  in  Cadenus  and  Vanessa  ?  What  is  your 
opinion  as  to  the  probability  of  the  reputed  marriage  of 
Swift  and  Stella  ? 


140  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

5.  Criticise  Thackeray's  estimate  of  the  character  of  Swift. 
Compare  Johnson's  estimate  with  Thackeray's. 

III.  Pope. 

1.  The  Epistle  to  Dr.  Arbuthnot.  Who  was  Dr.  Arbuthnot? 
When  was  this  epistle  written  ?  What  may  be  said  to  be 
the  general  theme  of  the  epistle  ? 

Give  such  facts  of  Pope's  life  as  may  be  necessary  to 
explain  fully  the  following  passages  : 

(1)  "As  yet  a  child,  not  yet  a  fool  to  fame, 

I  lisped  in  numbers,  for  the  numbers  came." 

(2)  M  The  Muse  but  serv'd  to  ease  some  friend,  not  wife, 
To  help  me  thro'  this  long  disease,  my  life." 

(3)  "  Soft  were  my  numbers  :  who  could  take  offence, 
While  pure  description  held  the  place  of  sense  ? " 

(4)  M  Who  to  the  dean  and  silver  bell  can  swear, 
And  sees  at  Canons  what  was  never  there." 

(5)  "  The  dreaded  sat'rist  Dennis  will  confess 
Foe  to  his  pride,  but  friend  to  his  distress." 

(6)  H  Me,  let  the  tender  office  long  engage, 
To  rock  the  cradle  of  reposing  age." 

What  three  famous  satiric  portraits  in  this  letter  ?  Give 
from  memory  the  famous  lines  on  Addison.  Which  fea- 
tures in  this  portrait  were  probably  most  lifelike  ?  Give  a 
full  account  of  Pope's  quarrel  with  Addison,  and  give  the 
history  of  this  particular  passage. 

Give  Pope's  own  statement  of  the  motives  and  objects 
of  his  satiric  writing,  as  he  gives  them  in  the  latter  part 
of  this  epistle.  And  how  far  do  you  think  his  practice  ac- 
corded with  his  professions  ? 

Cite  any  other  passages  from  this  epistle  which  indicate 

Pope's  literary  methods  and  ideals. 

2.  What  is  satire?    State  some  qualities  that  satiric  writing 

must  possess  to  be  effective  and  of  permanent  literary 

.    interest.    Which  of  these  qualities  are  present,  and  which 

—  if  any —  lacking,  in  Pope's  work  ? 

What  is  the  metrical  form  of  nearly  all  of  Pope's  work  ? 


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To  what  kinds  of  subject  is  this  form  well  suited  ?  And  why  ? 
What  is  the  meaning  of  the  term  "  classic,"  as  often 
applied  to  the  poetry  of  Pope  and  his  school  ?  In  what 
respects  was  this  poetry  representative  of  the  age  in  which 
it  was  produced  ? 
Name  all  Pope's  works  in  proper  chronological  order. 

State  briefly  the  ways  in  which  each  of  the  following 
persons  is  connected  with  the  life  or  work  of  Pope : 
William  Wycherley,  Arabella  Fermor,  Martha  Blount, 
Mary  Wortley  Montagu,  Jonathan  Swift,  John  Gay,  Richard 
Bentley,  Lewis  Theobald,  Colley  Cibber,  Lord  Bolingbroke, 
Bishop  Warburton. 


ON  COURSE  III 
I.  Johnson. 

1.  Sketch  briefly  the  course  of  his  life  and  work  from  the  time 

when  he  came  up  to  London  to  the  time  when  he  received 
his  pension,  1762. 

Give  a  list  of  his  principal  friends,  with  a  few  words  of 
description  for  each,  and  a  somewhat  fuller  account  of  the 
two  great  Irishmen  among  them. 

Mention  some  of  his  peculiarities  of  person  and  manner; 
some  of  his  characteristic  opinions  and  prejudices ;  some 
of  the  qualities  that  endeared  him  to  so  large  a  circle  of 
friends.  Illustrate  your  statements,  when  you  can,  by  refer- 
ence to  characteristic  facts  or  incidents  in  his  life. 

2.  Rasselas.    What  was  the  motive  of  the  Prince  in  leaving  the 

Happy  Valley  ?    And  did  he  at  last  attain  his  purpose  ? 

"  The  sentiments  of  her  whom  she  expected  to  see  no 
more  were  treasured  in  her  memory  as  rules  of  life,  and 
she  deliberated  to  no  other  end  than  to  conjecture  on 
every  occasion  what  would  have  been  the  opinions  and 
counsel  of  Pekuah."  What  passage  in  the  story  gives 
occasion  to  the  above  remarks  ?  And  what  event  in  John- 
son's own  experience  at  the  time  the  Rasselas  was  written 
gives  special  significance  to  them  ? 


142  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

The  views  of  Rasselas  and  Imlac  upon  poetry  and  upon 
marriage. 

The  prose  style  of  Johnson  described  in  detail.  How  is 
it  in  striking  contrast  with  that  of  Goldsmith  ?  And  how 
does  each  style  illustrate  the  mental  peculiarities  of  its 
writer  ? 

3.  The  Vanity  of  Human  Wishes.    On  what  Latin  poem  is  it 

based  ? 

By  what  historic  examples  does  Johnson  illustrate  the 
vanity  of  ambition  in  politics  and  government?  in  war? 
in  learning  ? 

Explain  these  lines : 
"  He  left  the  name  at  which  the  world  grew  pale 
To  point  a  moral  or  adorn  a  tale." 

M  From  Marlborough's  eyes  the  tears  of  dotage  flow, 
And  Swift  expires  a  driveller  and  a  show." 

What  passages  in  the  poem  seem  to  have  been  directly 
suggested  by  Johnson's  own  experience  ? 

What  is  the  moral  urged  in  the  closing  passage  of  the 
poem? 

What  resemblances  in  sentiment  between  this  poem  and 
the  Rasselas,  and  how  do  both  works  exemplify  the  temper 
of  their  author  ? 

In  metrical  form  this  poem  closely  resembles  Pope's 
satiric  poetry ;  but  what  differences  in  spirit  and  temper 
do  you  find  between  this  satire  and  Pope's  ? 

4.  How,  after  all,  do  you  account  for  the  literary  eminence  of 

a  man  whose  works  to-day  are  so  little  read  ? 

II.  Burke. 

1.  The  Speech  on  Conciliation  with  America.  Give  such  a  con- 
cise account  of  American  affairs  as  may  explain  the  oc- 
casion and  purpose  of  both  of  Burke's  great  American 
speeches. 

Discuss  what  Burke  says,  in  the  Speech  on  Conciliation, 
of  the  six  causes  of  the  American  spirit  of  liberty ;  of  the 


TEST  QUESTIONS  143 

ways  of  dealing  with  this  spirit.  State  his  position  on  the 
question  of  the  abstract  right  of  England  to  tax  the  col- 
onies. Give  the  substance  of  his  resolutions  which  were 
to  conciliate  the  colonies,  and  his  criticism  of  the  rival 
plan  of  Lord  North. 

2.  Reflections  on  the  Revolution  in  France.     What  was  the 

immediate  occasion  of  this  famous  work  ? 

Burke's  answer  to  Dr.  Price's  threefold  claim  for  the 
English  Revolution  of  1688. 

Burke's  discussion  of  the  doctrine  of  the  w  rights  of 
men  "  as  a  foundation  for  government. 

Burke's  charge  against  the  manners  and  sentiments  of 
the  new  French  government. 

Burke's  arguments  for  a  state  church. 

3.  Burke's  style.     State  some  characteristics  of  his  diction ; 

sentence  structure ;  mode  of  building  his  paragraphs ; 
ways  of  securing  force ;  and  any  peculiarities  of  his  mind 
that  are  strikingly  exhibited  in  his  style. 

Point  out  any  striking  excellence  in  the  arrangement 
and  general  conduct  of  his  speeches,  and  give,  if  you  can, 
any  reasons  why  these  speeches  were  not  generally  suc- 
cessful at  the  time  they  were  delivered. 

4.  Give  some  idea  of  Burke's  eminent  abilities  as  a  statesman ; 

on  the  other  hand,  indicate  some  of  his  deficiencies  as  a 
practical  politician  and  party  leader. 

Explain  the  apparent  and  alleged  inconsistency  between 
his  early  attitude  toward  the  American  Revolution  and 
his  later  attitude  toward  the  French  Revolution.  State 
whether  you  think  he  was  really  inconsistent,  and  give  in 
full  your  reasons  for  your  opinion. 

III.  Cowper. 

1.  Who  was  H  My  Mary  "  ?   Give  a  full  sketch  of  her  relations 

with  Cowper.  Who  was  Lady  Austen  ?  Theodora  Cowper  ? 
Lady  Hesketh  ?  John  Newton  ? 

2.  The  Task.  Occasion  of  the  poem  and  significance  of  its  title. 

What  is  the  locality  of  the  scenes  described  in  the  poem  ? 


144  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

Quote  the  descriptive  passage  beginning  with  line  1 54, 
"  How  oft  upon  yon  eminence." 

Quote  also,  for  comparison,  with  this  passage,  the  first 
fifteen  lines  of  Goldsmith's  Deserted  Village.  They  re- 
semble each  other  in  that  each  is  a  description  of  a  beauti- 
ful scene  long  familiar  to  the  writer;  but  can  you  point 
-  out  any  differences  between  them  in  manner  and  motive  ? 

In  Cowper's  work,  it  is  often  said,  we  see  the  begin- 
nings of  a  new  school  of  poetry  ;  compare  The  Task  with 
the  work  of  Pope  or  Johnson,  and  point  out  any  differ- 
ences in  subject,  manner,  temper. 

IV.  Burns. 

1.  His  parentage  and  the  conditions  of  his  early  life.    The  cir- 

cumstances attending  the  first  publication  of  his  poems, 
and  his  reception  in  Edinburgh. 

Who  are  these  persons,  and  how  connected  with  Burns's 
life  and  work?  —  Jean  Armour,  w  Highland  Mary,"  Gavin 
Hamilton,  w  Clarinda,"  Ellison  Begbie. 

2.  Describe  the  following  poems,  noting  the  chief  thoughts, 

incident,  sentiment,  and  imagery  in  each,  and  the  persons 
referred  to,  and  quote,  when  you  can :  Tarn  o'  Shanter, 
To  a  Louse,  Epistle  to  Davie,  Mary  Morison,  "  Ae  fond 
kiss  and  then  we  sever." 

Tell  whence  these  lines  are  taken,  and  explain  the  itali- 
cized words  in  them  : 

"  But  now  the  supper  crowns  their  simple  board  — 
The  halesome  parritch,  chief  of  Scotia's  food: 
The  soupe  their  only  haiokie  does  afford 
That  'yont  the  hallan  snugly  chews  her  cood  : 
The  dame  brings  forth  in  complimental  mood 
To  grace  the  lad,  her  well-hain'd  kebbnck,fell 
And  aft  he  's  prest,  and  aft  he  ca's  it  gude  ; 
The  frugal  wifie,  garrulous,  will  tell, 
How  't  was  a  towmotul  ait  Id,  sin  lint  was  V  the  bell" 


TEST  QUESTIONS  145 

How  is  such  a  story  as  that  of  Tarn  o'  Shanter  raised  into 
poetry  ?  And  what  are  some  of  the  excellences  of  Burns's 
work  that  this  poem  well  illustrates  ? 

What  other  excellences  may  be  well  seen  in  The  Cot- 
ter's Saturday  Night  ?  Compare  this  poem  with  Gray's 
Elegy.  What  points  of  similarity  and  points  of  difference 
do  you  find  ? 

Cite  three  of  Burns's  poems  that  show,  in  different  ways, 
his  remarkable  pathos. 

What  essential  qualities  of  lyric  poetry  does  the  work 
of  Burns  possess  in  a  high  degree  ? 

What  qualities  explain  the  eminently  popular  character 
of  his  verse  ? 

In  what  respects  is  Burns's  poetry  representative  of  the 
new  social  and  political  ideas  of  his  age  ? 

What  were  some  of  the  chief  weaknesses  of  Burns  as  a 
man,  and  how  did  they  affect  his  poetry  ?  He  says  of  him- 
self in  The  Vision 

"  —  e'en  the  light  that  led  astray 
Was  light  from  heaven." 
What  did  he  mean  ?   And  is  there  any  sense  in  which  the 
statement  is  true  ? 


ON  COURSE  IV 
I.  Wordsworth. 

1.  State  the  principal  facts  in  Wordsworth's  life  during  the  inter- 

val between  leaving  the  university  and  settling  at  Grasmere. 

Explain  briefly  the  influence  of  the  French  Revolution 
upon  him  during  those  years. 

For  what  does  he  profess  himself  indebted  to  his  sister 
in  that  phase  of  his  experience  ? 

Name  the  chief  poems  produced  during  that  period. 
How  were  these  poems  received  ?  On  what  did  the  critics 
base  their  objections  ? 

2.  On  what  ground  did  Wordsworth  base  his  preference  for 

subjects  from  humble  life  ? 


146  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

• 

Show  by  somewhat  detailed  reference  to  Michael,  The 
Highland  Reaper,  Alice  Fell,  Lucy  Gray,  The  Leech 
Gatherer,  Simon  Lee,  the  various  ways  in  which  Words- 
worth treated  subjects  from  humble  life ;  show  in  which 
poems  the  treatment  is  poetically  successful,  and  in  which 
it  is  not,  and  give  some  reasons  for  the  difference. 

Compare  with  the  poems  above  named  such  work  as 
Gray's  Elegy,  Goldsmith's  Deserted  Village,  Burns's  Cot- 
ter's Saturday  Night  or  Mary  Morison,  —  all,  in  some 
sense,  poems  of  humble  life,  —  and  show  how  Words- 
worth's treatment  differs  from  that  of  his  predecessors. 

3.  State  what  you  think  there  is  characteristic  in  Wordsworth's 

attitude  toward  external  nature ;  and  illustrate  your  state- 
ments by  detailed  reference  to  Lines  above  Tintern  Abbey, 
"  Three  years  she  grew,"  and  any  other  poems  you  may 
choose. 

4.  "  The  Happy  Warrior,"  said  Wordsworth  once,  H  is  a  chain 

of  extremely  valuable  thoughts  "  ;  give  the  main  thoughts 
of  the  chain. 

5.  Translated  into  prosaic  form,  what  is  the  meaning  of  these 

lines  from  the  Ode  to  Duty  ? 

"  Thou  dost  preserve  the  stars  from  wrong, 
And  the  most  ancient  heavens  through  Thee  are 
fresh  and  strong." 

6.  Lovers  of  Wordsworth  claim  for  his  poetry  unusual  value  as 

moral  impulse  and  inspiration.  Does  this  claim  seem  to 
you  just,  and,  if  so,  to  what  virtues  does  it  most  inspire  ? 

7.  What  were  some  of  the  marked  deficiencies  and  limitations 

of  Wordsworth's  poetic  genius  ?  Refer  to  some  poems 
that  show  such  deficiencies  and  limitations 

II.  Shelley. 

1.  State  briefly  the  facts  with  reference  to  Shelley's  expulsion 

from  the  university  and  his  first  marriage.  Show  how 
these  facts  illustrate  his  opinions  and  temper. 

2.  Characterize  the  mood  or  temper  that  seems  to  be  common 

to  all  the  following-named  poems,  and  to  many  others  of 


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Shelley,  —  indeed,  it  might  be  called  the  Shelleyan  mood, 
as  another  mood  is  often  termed  Byronic  :  Alastor,  Lines 
among  the  Euganean  Hills,  To  a  Skylark,  Stanzas  near 
Naples,  The  Sensitive  Plant,  The  West  Wind,  "  Rarely 
comest  thou,  Spirit  of  Delight." 

3.  Shelley  has  remarkable  powers  of  natural  description.    What 

kind  of  scenes  does  he  describe  best  ?  Illustrate  by  refer- 
ence to  The  Cloud,  Lines  among  the  Euganean  Hills, 
Prometheus  Unbound. 

4.  Shelley's  verse  is  also  noted  for  its  exquisite  melody  and 

tone  color,  i.e.  variation  and  adaptation  of  sound  —  both 
vowel  and  consonant — and  of  movement  in  accordance 
with  changing  sentiment.  Cite  at  least  four  passages  to 
illustrate  this  power. 

5.  The  Adonais.    Occasion  of  it  ?    Plan  of  it  ?    Who  are  the 

M  Mountain  Shepherds,"  friends  of  Adonais  ?  The  last  is 
Shelley  himself.  How  is  he  described  ?  What  notion  of 
a  future  life  is  embodied  in  the  Adonais  ? 

6.  Shelley  was   our  typical  poet  of  revolutionary  sentiment. 

Against  what  wrongs  does  he  think  himself  in  revolt  ?  To 
what  motives  does  he  usually  appeal  for  reform  ?  At  what 
points  was  his  social  philosophy  radically  defective  ?  How 
did  his  revolutionary  sentiment  affect  his  shorter,  lyrical 
poems  ? 

7.  He  was,  says  Matthew  Arnold,  M  a  beautiful  and  ineffectual 

angel."    What  does  Mr.  Arnold  mean  ? 

III.  Keats. 

1.  M  Love  and  Death  had  come  together."  What  facts  of  Keats's 

life  are  thus  metaphorically  stated  ? 

Name  his  principal  poems  in  the  order  of  their  com- 
position. In  what  respects  are  the  last  much  better  than 
the  first  ? 

2.  Tell  the  story  of  The  Eve  of  St.  Agnes,  particularizing,  as 

you  go,  on  such  passages  as  show  most  clearly  the 
keenness  and  delicacy  of  Keats's  susceptibility  to  sensuous 
beauty. 


148  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

• 

Shelley  also  had  a  keen  sense  of  beauty,  but  it  was  quite 
different  from  that  of  Keats.  Compare,  for  example,  The 
Eve  of  St.  Agnes  with  The  Cloud  or  The  Sensitive  Plant 

3.  Give    the  sentiment  that  inspires  the  Ode  to   a  Grecian 

Urn. 

4.  Compare  the  Ode  to  a  Nightingale  with  the  Ode  to  a  Sky- 

lark. In  both  there  is  hopeless  desire  and  longing;  but 
how  do  the  desire  and  longing  of  Keats  differ  from  those 
of  Shelley  ? 

5.  Compare    the    descriptive   work    of   Wordsworth,    Byron, 

Shelley,  and  Keats,  as  to  objects  of  description  most 
congenial  to  each,  and  the  mood  in  which  each  habitually 
contemplates  those  objects.  Use  for  illustration  Tintern 
Abbey,  Childe  Harold,  The  Cloud  or  The  West  Wind, 
The  Eve  of  St.  Agnes. 

IV.  Lamb. 

Write  a  brief  essay  upon  Charles  Lamb,  covering  the  following 
points : 

(1)  His  domestic  history  and  his  principal  friendships, 
with  illustrative  references  to  the  essays. 

(2)  His  favorite  authors,  and  their  influence  upon  his 
own  literary  style. 

(3)  His  humor,  —  its  varieties  and  its  essential  spirit. 

(4)  His  pathos. 

ON  COURSE  V 
I.  Carlyle. 

1.  Sartor  Resartus.    Explain  the  metaphor  in  the  title. 

What  facts  of  Carlyle's  parentage,  education,  early 
friendships,  are  related,  under  a  thin  disguise,  in  Book  II  ? 
Explain  what  you  understand  to  have  been  the  spiritual 
crisis  described  in  the  chapter  on  the  M  Everlasting  No." 
Give  Teufelsdrbckh's  views  of  Happiness  and  of  Work, 
as  expounded  in  the  chapter  entitled  "  The  Everlasting 
Yea."  M  This,"  says  Teufelsdrockh,  "  is  the  Everlasting 
Yea,  wherein  all  contradiction  is  solved."   What  is  ?  How 


TEST  QUESTIONS  149 

far  did  Carlyle  exemplify  in  his  own  life  the  principles  laid 
down  in  this  chapter  ? 

What  is  the  meaning  of  the  phrase  M  Natural  Supernatu- 

ralism  "  as  it  is  explained  in  the  chapter  bearing  that  title  ? 

2.  Cite  from  the  Sartor  Resartus  at  least  two  passages  that 

exemplify   Carlyle's    remarkable    power    of    imaginative 

description. 

Carlyle's  prose  style.  Point  out  (1)  some  peculiarities 
of  his  diction ;  (2)  some  idioms  and  turns  of  phrase  of 
which  he  is  fond ;  (3)  some  peculiarities  of  sentence 
structure  and  arrangement ;  (4)  some  favorite  figures  and 
other  rhetorical  devices. 

Carlyle's  prose  style  is  obviously  the  exact  opposite  of 
Matthew  Arnold's ;  show  in  what  respects  the  two  styles 
are  thus  violently  contrasted  with  each  other,  and  show 
how  each  style  is  representative  of  the  temper  of  the  man. 

II.  Browning. 

1.  Describe  the  following  short  poems,  giving  incident  or  nar- 

rative, argument,  and  the  central  truth  that  each  poem 
illustrates  or  enforces  :  The  Last  Ride  Together,  Youth 
and  Art,  Love  among  the  Ruins,  Abt  Vogler. 

2.  Andrea  del  Sarto.    Who  are  the  persons  ?    How  does  the 

beautiful  descriptive  passage  at  the  beginning  add  to  the 
dramatic  effect  of  the  poem  ?  To  what  facts  in  his  life 
does  Andrea  refer  ?  Of  what  does  he  accuse  himself  ? 
What  is  the  real  cause  of  his  failure  ?  How  is  it  pathet- 
ically shown  in  the  last  paragraph  of  the  poem  ?  What 
principles  in  Browning's  philosophy  of  life  would  you  say 
this  poem  illustrates  ?  And  can  you  show  how  the  same 
principles  are  illustrated  —  but  from  the  side  of  success 
rather  than  of  failure  —  in  Rabbi  Ben  Ezra  ? 

3.  The  Epistle  of  Karshish.   Outline  the  epistle.   Point  out  the 

nice  dramatic  skill  with  which  Karshish,  by  the  way  he 
tells  his  story,  is  made  to  reveal  his  own  character. 

Point  out  any  brief  passage  of  vivid  description  that 
subtly  harmonizes  with  the  mood  of  the  speaker. 


150  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

Explain  the  characteristics  of  thought  and  judgment 
attributed  to  the  risen  Lazarus. 

What  is  the  great  truth,  the  possibility  of  which  has  so 
impressed  Karshish  ? 

In  what  other  poem  of  Browning  assigned  for  your  read- 
ing does  the  same  truth  find  most  emphatic  and  beautiful 
expression  ? 

4.  A  Toccata  of  Galuppi's.    Write  a  full  body  of  notes  on  this 

short  poem,  showing  who  is  speaking,  of  whom,  explain- 
ing all  words  or  terms  of  phrase  that  need  explanation, 
and  showing  the  course  of  thought  and  feeling  through 
the  poem. 

5.  Compare  Browning's  treatment  of  love  as  seen,  for  instance, 

in  Love  among  the  Ruins,  Youth  and  Art,  The  Last  Ride 
Together,  with  Tennyson's,  as  seen  in  The  Gardener's 
Daughter,  The  Miller's  Daughter,  Locksley  Hall. 

6.  What  is  meant  by  "  dramatic  "  when  the  term  is  applied  to 

poetry  not  in  the  form  of  drama  ? 

What  is  the  "  dramatic  monologue "  ?  Illustrate  the 
form  by  a  full  description  of  My  Last  Duchess. 

7.  Browning's  alleged  obscurity.    Point  out  some  peculiarities 

of  diction  and  structure,  and  some  habits  of  thought  that 
account  for  it. 


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